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|  | | A Lesson in Murder
An English teacher at a Philadelphia Quaker school helps a police lieutenant solve the murders of the parents of ex-students by dicovering clues linked to works of literature.
When a wealthy benefactor and alumnus of Eastern Friends School in Philadelphia is murdered, details at the scene prompt Lt. Frank DiSalvo to introduce himself at a faculty meeting. There, he meets Maxwell Hunter, an English teacher who likes to lecture about the mysteries of literature. At first, DiSalvo brushes off Hunter's offer of help, but when the second EFS-related murder is discovered, he enlists his aid.
With his sharp eye for detail, and uncanny ability to assemble the pieces of the puzzle, Hunter identifies the literary references in the clues left at the crim | |  | | Feast or Famine
A traumatized man confronts his Catholic Italian American past.
p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">font size="3">font face="Times New Roman">b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY?span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>/b>It’s more like eat, drink, and be miserable.span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Feast or Famine/i> is a novel which depicts what happens when the tension between the Catholic Church’s restrictions on self-indulgence and the Italian desire for food, gambling, physical passion, and expensive (although tacky) material things encoun |
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