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by Linda Barnes

1995FictionWomen detectivesTaxicab driversCarlotta Carlyle (Fictitious character)Detective and mystery stories
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Drey kenen haltn a sod as tsvey zaynen meysim, my grandmother used to say.

About this book

Boston taxi driver Carlotta Carlyle, a pistol-packing, six-foot-one redhead, investigates a series of robberies threatening to close the G & W cab company. With the help of an ex-Mafia friend, Sam Gianelli, who is a computer hobbyist, Carlotta invests in a computer and solves the robberies. By the author of Snapshot.

Themes & subjects

FictionWomen detectivesTaxicab driversCarlotta Carlyle (Fictitious character)Detective and mystery storiesLarge type books
First published 1995

Setting

BostonBoston (Mass.)Massachusetts

About the author

Linda Barnes
Linda Barnes

6 December 1949

Author

Linda Barnes

First published

1995

Pages

338

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

Delacorte Press

ISBN

9780440212232

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