The Mystery Lady

ANNA CLARKE

Publication: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986, Garden City

First U.S. edition. An English professor becomes a successful author but her powerfully persuasive publisher insists that she write the biography of another best-selling author, a romance writer whose history is shrouded in mystery and, possibly, murder. Gift inscription from mystery writer Shannon O'Cork presenting the book to the Mystery Writers of America, else fine in dust jacket. $20.00Rosie O'Grady, the popular British author, is suddenly a recluse, her only link with the world a slippery chap named Robin. And when fellow writer Paula Glenning begins nosing into Rosie's past, she discovers that sticks and stones can break your bones--but words can kill!