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Hard TimeSara Paretsky
Mystery

Hard Time

400 pagesFirst published 199914 editions
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"Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. And for V.I., unraveling the mystery of a battered and discarded woman will plunge her into the darkest and most emotionally shattering case of her career, taking her into the troubled home of a…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
AudiobookPhoenix Audio2001—9781590400050
EditionTandem Library2000—9780613278690
EditionRandom House Large Print20006569780375707803
PaperbackDell Pub Co2000—9785551171232
EditionDell20005129780440224709
EditionTurtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media2000—9780606189859
EditionDelacorte Press19993859780385313636
AudiobookAudio Literature1999—9780787123710
HardcoverHamish Hamilton Ltd19994009780241140161
AudiobookAudio Literature1999—9780787120122
PaperbackHamish Hamilton19994009780241140178
HardcoverDelacorte1999—9780783886961
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