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| Murder Can Depress Your Dachshund: A Desiree Shapiro Mystery | 
 enlarge | Author: Selma Eichler
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 331041
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0451220609
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780451220608
ASIN: 0451220609
Publication Date: February 6, 2007
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Product Description
On the day before Jordy Mills was going to donate a kidney to save his brother Cornell's life, he was shot to death. Without donor, Cornell tragically committed suicide. Looking into the lives of these two brothers, Manhattan P.I. Desiree Shapiro has discovered that one's a saint, the other's a sinner, and someone wanted them both dead.
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Enjoyable book June 9, 2008
If you like this series, then you will enjoy this book. I have read most all of the books in this series and although I like a few of the earlier ones better, I still thought it was enjoyable and Desiree is a fun as ever. This is a fun mystery - great for summer reading.
Enough With the Notes Already :0 June 30, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Finding what I call a "sophisticated cozy," is often a challenge. This is my first in this series, and it didn't dumb-down the mystery too much. Good characters and an interesting plot. I am concerned, based on one of the other reviews, that the series may become formulaic, but I will order more. Besides most authors of mystery series have a formula. No matter who you read, after a while, you get tired and need to switch up. My only criticism had to do with the notes. My goodness, she spends HOURS transcribing her notes. That is a little unbelievable. The interviews aren't that long. Fill that time with something else, Desiree. Maybe it's a ploy to close loose ends: Eureka! The answer was in my NOTES. Whatever. This isn't rocket science. We who like uncomplicated mysteries are going to have to take a little imperfection. This book was fun. I recommend it and will visit with Desiree again.
This series is fun June 9, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There is nothing profound about this series, and the mysteries are not highly mysterious, but it is a great deal of fun. Time spent in Desiree's company is always enjoyable.
delightfully wacky June 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I tremendously enjoy Eichler's wacky, chubby, citified detective, Desiree Shapiro and the off-beat characters with which Eichler's books are populated. Isnt' it fun how "gossip" helps Desiree solve things? This series remains in a category of mysteries that continue to engage my tastes -- which are tired and sick to death of the hardbitten, violent, and oversexed gumshoes that still inhabit too many of our mystery novels. This current one lives up to those criteria and I enjoyed the story, about which I will not comment any more so as not to impinge on your enjoyment of it.
 So-So March 20, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This series has become very predictable. Desiree gets a case, talks to lots of people, spends hours upon hours typing up her notes, reviews her notes 500 times, and then on the 501st review, sees something that leads her to the solution.
Add in a few nagging phone calls from the whiny Ellen (and one Mandarin Joy dinner at her apartment), a few evil eyes from the annoying Jackie for not being privy to Desiree's every move, and a few dates with the nerdy Nick, who spends most of his time fretting about his over-the-top monster kid, and it's getting hard to tell one installment apart from the next.
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