Marissa Piesman, Author Delacorte Press $18.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-385-30537-2
Nina Fischman, a public service lawyer for the elderly, carries on the Rhoda Morganstern tradition of witty Jewish Manhattanites with husbandless homes and easily stirred sympathies (``Everything that happened to anybody anywhere was a concern. It...
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Marissa Piesman, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-385-30538-9
Bronx-reared, Jewish and female, Nina Fischman, a Legal Services for the Elderly attorney, imbues her latest adventure with lively wit and brash humor. Spending a week at a Fire Island summer share with Cheryl Schneiderman, a bossy Housing Court...
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Marissa Piesman, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-385-31355-1
Quintessential New Yorker, lawyer Nina Fischman, last seen in Close Quarters, pursues another murder investigation in her fifth appearance. Her boyfriend Jonathan becomes a suspect in the death of his doorman, who was murdered while moving Jonathan's
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Marissa Piesman, Author Delacorte Press $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-31358-2
In Nina Fischman's fifth outing (following Alternate Sides), the neurotic, Manhattan-based lawyer, having just ended a relationship and returned to the city from L.A., suffers the indignity of moving in with her mother on the Upper West Side. While...
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Marissa Piesman, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74275-1
Piesman's ( Unorthodox Practices ) animated dialogue and lively sense of the absurd help make attorney Nina Fischman's second try at sleuthing a noteworthy one, though her self-deprecating Jewish shtickper Web. wears thin after a while. Susan Gold,...
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