Foul Matter
| Year of Publication |
2003
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
372 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Martha Grimes |
| Publisher |
Viking
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Best-selling author Pau Giverney agrees to sign with a new publisher if it agrees to terminate another author, Ned Isaly. The complicated scheme unfolds: a hit will be put on Ned Isaly, who is back in Pittsburgh, his hometown, to research a book. The city and its beloved Isaly Ice Cream Company play a major role in the plot. “[A] send-up of the publishing industry,” writes the New York Times, “with characters, her publicist says coyly, who may bear a resemblance to real people.”
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| Notes |
In the 1990s, Grimes was dropped by Alfred A. Knopf, publisher of her popular 18-books series about the British detective Richard Jury.
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| Author Biography |
Martha Grimes (1931—) was born in Pittsburgh the daughter of the City Solicitor, William Dermit Grimes. She earned degrees at the University of Maryland and did postgraduate work in poetry—alongside Philip Levine and Donald Justice—at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Author of more than 30 books that have sold five million copies worldwide, she is best known for her detective series about an inspector in Scotland Yard, Richard Jury. She lives in Washington, DC and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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| Time |
1990s
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