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Selma Eichler
Full Series List in Order
A Desiree Shapiro Mystery
1 - Murder Can Kill Your Social Life (Nov-1994)2 - Murder Can Ruin Your Looks (Apr-1995)
3 - Murder Can Stunt Your Growth (Jan-1996)
4 - Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion (Jan-1997)
5 - Murder Can Spook Your Cat (Jan-1998)
6 - Murder Can Singe Your Old Flame (Jan-1999)
7 - Murder Can Spoil Your Appetite (Feb-2000)
8 - Murder Can Upset Your Mother (Mar-2001)
9 - Murder Can Cool Off Your Affair (Mar-2002)
10 - Murder Can Rain on Your Shower (Mar-2003)
11 - Murder Can Botch Up Your Birthday (Mar-2004)
12 - Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara (Feb-2005)
13 - Murder Can Run Your Stockings (Feb-2006)
14 - Murder Can Depress Your Dachshund (Feb-2007)
15 - Murder Can Crash Your Party (May-2008)
Book List in Order: 16 titles
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Murder Can Kill Your Social Life
- Nov-1994
- / Private Investigator
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A STEADY DIET OF SUDDEN DEATH Desiree Shapiro, New York PI, is no hard-boiled shamus. She has dimples in her knees, elbows, and some unmentionable places. Desiree is a chubby gumshoe who has a mind as sharp as a Cuisinart and a queen-sized talent ...
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Murder Can Ruin Your Looks
- Apr-1995
- / Private Investigator
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A DISCRIMINATING TASTE FOR MURDER Desiree Shapiro, New York's full-figured P.I., is dead set against taking another murder case. But her old friend Peter Winters just needs Desiree to figure out who got killed. His fiancee, Mary Ann, and her ident...
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Murder Can Stunt Your Growth
- Jan-1996
- / Private Investigator
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A HUNGER FOR JUSTICE Desiree Shapiro is no lightweight when it comes to crime. At five foot two and pleasingly plump, she always takes on cases she can sink her teeth into. That's why she is so reluctant to investigate the death of little Catherin...
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Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion
- Jan-1997
- / Private Investigator
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A CRAVING FOR THE TRUTH Private eye Desiree Shapiro has as much a talent for murder as she does for whipping up--and polishing off--a cold lemon souffle. And New York's chubbiest detective is certainly putting all she's got into solving the death ...
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Murder Can Spook Your Cat
- Jan-1998
- / Private Investigator
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AN APPETITE FOR CRIME... Well-rounded P.I. Desiree Shapiro brings as much gusto to solving an unsavory crime as she does to creating--and consuming--a savory salmon mousse. But the demise of Luella Pressman has her stumped. The well-known children...
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Murder Can Singe Your Old Flame
- Jan-1999
- / Private Investigator
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Desiree Shapiro is a big woman, in both body and heart. And it's her big heart that gets her into this mess--investigating the suspicious death of her ex-boyfriend's new wife. Bruce Simon had been a louse when they were dating...but no matter how ...
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Murder Can Spoil Your Appetite
- Feb-2000
- / Private Investigator
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Normally, pudgy private eye Desiree Shapiro would turn down a job no more than she would a second helping of chocolate mousse. But this case is decidedly unappetizing. Her new client is powerful crime boss Vito da Silva, and he wants her to find out ...
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Murder Can Upset Your Mother
- Mar-2001
- / Private Investigator
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"Someone is trying to kill me!" Rich philanthropist Miriam Weiden left these chilling words on Desiree Shapiro's answering machine just hours before she was murdered. Now two questions haunt Manhattan's plumpest PI: Why would anyone murder a wonderfu...
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Murder Can Hurt Your Ears
- Jun-2001
- / Mystery
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WHAT I SOLVED ON MY SUMMER VACATION. Detectives make their reputations solving cases of murder and mayhem. Ever wonder what happens when they try to get away from it all? In this summertime crime spree, twenty of today's best mystery writers--f...
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Murder Can Cool Off Your Affair
- Mar-2002
- / Private Investigator
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Rich-as-Croesus Uncle Victor has only a few months to live. Edward, his favorite nephew and heir to his fortune, was recently shot to death. Now a second nephew, John Lander--the next in line to inherit--is enlisting the help of Manhattan PI Desiree ...
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Murder Can Rain on Your Shower
- Mar-2003
- / Private Investigator
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Desiree Shapiro's niece, Ellen, will soon be saying, "I do." So Manhattan's pudgiest P.I. teams up with Ellen's future mother-in-lain to give the bride-to-be a truly memorable shower. And memorable, it is. After all, when a guest takes a few bites of...
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Murder Can Botch Up Your Birthday
- Mar-2004
- / Private Investigator
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No one can say that Desiree Shapiro, New York's chubbiest PI, isn't a soft touch. That's why when teenager Vicky Pirrelli wants to find out who really killed her father's mistress--a crime for which he went to jail--Desiree decides to ignore all the ...
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Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara
- Feb-2005
- / Private Investigator
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New York's plus-size PI, Desiree Shapiro, discovers that her latest would-be client is harder to say no to than a second--make that a third--slice of Little Angie's pizza. There have already been two attempts to kill charismatic pharmaceutical exec G...
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Murder Can Run Your Stockings
- Feb-2006
- / Private Investigator
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Misstep or Murder? Flying home from a friend's wedding in Minneapolis, Desiree is seated alongside an attorney traveling to New York for a funeral. It seems his beloved aunt Bessie died from a fall down the basement steps. Before long, however, th...
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Murder Can Depress Your Dachshund
- Feb-2007
- / Private Investigator
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Two deaths for the price of one? Zaftig Manhattan PI Desiree Shapiro is ogling the earrings at Bloomingdale's when her friend Blossom Goody catches up with her. The son of one of Blossom's old pals has been mysteriously shot and killed, and Blosso...
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Murder Can Crash Your Party
- May-2008
- / Private Investigator
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Is truth stranger than fiction? Her love affair with her boyfriend, Nick, is in jeopardy, and her career is in free fall. So when full-figured Manhattan PI Desiree Shapiro is invited to speak at a mystery writers' convention in Connecticut, she fi...