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Missing BeautyTeresa Carpenter

Missing Beauty

1988478 pages
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A distraught father walks into the newsroom of the Boston Herald asking for help in locating his missing daughter, a beautiful commercial artist named Robin Benedict. The publication of her photograph sets in motion a murder investigation that leads to the arrest of one of her former lovers. But nothing is quite what it seems. Benedict is actually a high-paid prostitute in Boston's Combat Zone. The suspect is the eminent anatomist Dr. William Henry James Douglas who, it is learned, has been embezzling funds from his laboratory at Tufts University to support his costly entanglement with…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 1989
    Pinnacle · 605 pages · 9780786004492
  • Hardcover · English · 1988
    Norton · 478 pages · 9780393025699
  • Other · English · 2007
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 478 pages · 9780393332230
  • Other · English · 1989
    Hamish Hamilton · 478 pages · 9780241127759
  • Other · English · 1989
    Kensington Pub. Corp. · 605 pages · 9780821727553
Case studiesHomicide investigationMurderMurder, massachusettsNew York Times reviewedFiction, general