Dial Me for Murder
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Dial Me for Murder (Paige Turner, #5)
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Crime reporter and mystery novelist Paige Turner is looking into the murder of a young secretary whose naked body was found in Central Park—with th... read full description

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Feb 09, 2009
Cindi rated it: 5 of 5 stars
I LOVED this one. This series is set in the mid 1950s. The characters are a hoot! The mystery is mysterious. The way of life then was simpler. I almost want to go back and live during this time.
Paige is smart and it's hard to be a smart woman then. She never gets her just rewards except from Dan, her boyfriend.
I loved trying to figure this one out and much as I enjoyed the references to that era. Who knew there was so much in common with things today but to a less degree.
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Oct 27, 2008
Patricia rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Pick up Dial Me For Murder and get lost in the fifties. Paige Turner is a reporter for Daring Detective Magazine in New York and life as a crime reporter is not easy for a woman in 1955. Yes, Paige does get her stories printed in Daring Detective but Paige also is in charge of making and hauling coffee to all of the male employees of Daring Detective. Paige was the name she was born with but when she married a man named Turner she officially became Paige Turner. As you can imagine she More...
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Sep 15, 2010
Erin rated it: 2 of 5 stars
I was drawn to this book because of the charming cover and the premise (this is 5th in the series about a crime reporter for the Daring Detective newspaper in the 50s who solves murders) but it was just a little too cutesy with the 50s-speak for my taste. It might've been my mood, but the characters didn't really sparkle for me and I lost interest about 80 pages in (I also put it down to read a few other things about 3 weeks ago, and that rarely ends well). Cozy mysteries aren't usually my thi More...
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May 11, 2009
Susan rated it: 5 of 5 stars
I really loved this book as much as the others.
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Nov 09, 2011
Juanita rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Fun!!
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