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      The Dying Trade

      by Peter Corris
      Published
      Jan 1980
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      256
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      Series
      A Cliff Hardy Mystery Book 1

      About This Book

      Hardy needs work. In fact, he's the type of detective who never turns down a case. He can afford not to. So when wealthy Bryn Gutteridge, a real estate heir who amuses himself by shooting seagulls, asks Hardy to find out who has been threatening his twin sister, Susan, the private eye agrees. And finds himself on a case that turns brutal everyday. First Gutteridge's butler is murdered. Then his pretty young stepmother is badly beaten. Hardy himself takes a few punches. And before long it's hard to tell the victims from the villains.

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      Book 1
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      Suspense

      Subgenres

      Hard-Boiled Private Investigator

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      First Edition Apr 1986 Fawcett ISBN 0449130304
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      Jun 2013 Text Classics ISBN 1921922176
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      May 2012 The Text Publishing Company ISBN 1921921331
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