Liza Cody: Dupe (2016)

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The 1st Classic Anna Lee Mystery Bereaved parents turn to the Brierly Security Agency for an explanation of their daughter's death. Anna Lee is assigned to the case.

"Move over Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Meet Anna Lee - the best of the newly ordained female detectives on the scene." San Diego Tribune

"My favourite female private eye." The Sunday Times

Liza Cody: Dupe. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN: 9781507778074 (January, 2016), 276 p., $7.00, £5.50.

Liza Cody: Dupe (USA 2005)

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Anna quit the London police force because it was a dead end for women, but her job with Brierly Security isn't a whole lot livelier. Her boss doesn't much approve of female investigators and her assignments tend toward the frustratingly genteel.

The Jackson case doesn't look like a big improvement. Ambitious, unpleasant young Deirdre Jackson has died, the apparent victim of a car accident on a lonely stretch of highway, and her parents want to know what their black-sheep daughter was up to in her last few months. Anna's job, she knows, is to ask a few questions, write a report, and collect the Jacksons' check. But the more questions she asks about Dee's life, the more questions arise about her death. Answering them could land Anna in the hospital... or the morgue. But it could also be her ticket out of the pink-collar ghetto.

Liza Cody: Dupe. Felony & Mayhem; ISBN: 1933397144 (December, 2005), 262 p., $14.95.

Liza Cody: Dupe (USA 1992)

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Winner of Britain's John Creasey Award for Best First Novel of 1980
Anna quit the London police force because it was a dead end for women, but her job with Brierly Security isn't a whole lot livelier. Her boss doesn't much approve of female investigators, and her assignments tend toward the frustratingly genteel. The Jackson case doesn't look like a big improvement. Ambitious, unpleasant young Deirdre Jackson has died, the apparent victim of a car accident on a lonely stretch of highway, and her parents want to know what their black-sheep daughter was up to in her last few months. Anna's job, she knows, is to ask a few questions, write a report, and collect the Jacksons' check. But the more questions she asks about Dee's life, the more questions arise about her death. Answering them could land Anna in the hospital... or the morgue. But it could also be her ticket out of the pink-collar ghetto.

Liza Cody: Dupe. An Anna Lee Mystery. Bantam Crime Line, ISBN: 0553296418 (October, 1992), 235 p., $4.99.

Liza Cody: Dupe (UK 1991)

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When their daughter, who had driven race cars, is killed in what the police deem an accident on an icy stretch of road, Dierdre Jackson's parents call in P.I. Anna Lee. Anna finds motives and murder as she probes the unsavory world of the London film industry, where Dierdre saw glamour -- and found death...

Liza Cody: Dupe. Arrow, ISBN: 0099821109 (February, 1991), 249 p., £3.99.

Liza Cody: Dupe (USA 1981)

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Ex-policewoman Anna Lee is nearly ready to give up her job as a private in-vestigator. Patronized by her boss and colleagues, she is handed only the most routine cases. When Tom Jackson, a self-made auto magnate, blusters into Brierly Security complaining about the police investigation of his daughter's death, it looks like yet another routine job.

Deirdre Jackson died in an automobile accident late at night, on an icy road. The police are convinced that she dozed off and skidded, and they find no evidence of foul play. But Tom Jackson insists that his favorite daughter -- who had driven race cars-would never fall asleep at the wheel or lose control on such an easy stretch of road. And there was a report of a strange chemical smell about the wreckage.

Anna Lee finds that Deirdre came to London in search of glamour, determined to become a movie director. But her trail leads only to the seedy fringes of the film world, where Anna finds that fraud, failure, and violence marked Deirdre's path...

Liza Cody: Dupe. A Murder Mystery. Scribner's, ISBN: 0684171538 (September, 1981), 249 p., $10.95.

Liza Cody: Dupe (UK 1980)

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Fobbed off with all the routine jobs that come to a London detective agency, Anna Lee, a former policewoman, could sleep through most of them. The patronizing attitude of her boss and colleagues had become as irksome to her as the work was uninspiring.

Then Tom Jackson blustered into Brierly Security's sedate Kensington office looking for Satisfaction. And if we can't get it from the police we're prepared to pay for it. Look, my daughter is dead and we didn't expect to come to the police with our reasonable doubts and be treated like country bumpkins who don't know an apple from Adam...

Jackson's spoiled daughter Deirdre had died in a car accident near Heathrow Airport on an icy December night. The wrecked car had a disturbing smell, but there were no signs of foul play. To Martin Brierly business was business and he accepted the job. To Anna it meant just another dead-end investigation.

But Deirdre had left home in search of a glamorous career, and, in following her ghost, Anna was led to the seedy fringes of the film world, where she found that fraud, failure and violence, not glamour, matked Deirdres path to a lonely death.

Liza Cody's first novel introduces an engaging new heroine and offers solid detection, memorable characterization and a pleasingly light touch.

Liza Cody: Dupe. London: Collins Crime Club, 1980, ISBN: 0002312727, 238 p., £5.50.