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Belva Plain, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-440-21684-1

Plain's latest mystery concerns business machinations, child molestation and murder within a powerful family. (May)
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Reviewed on: 04/01/1996

Release date: 04/01/1996

Genre: Fiction

Library Binding - 422 pages - 9780783811161

Hardcover - 342 pages - 9780385311076

Hardcover - 422 pages - 9780745136967

Mass Market Paperbound - 448 pages - 9780440216841

Analog Audio Cassette - 2 pages - 9780553473674

Paperback - 422 pages - 9780783811178

Hardcover - 422 pages - 9780745178707

Other - 204 pages - 9780307789457

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