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Featuring Courtney Brade, whom nobody ever took for a detective, and of whom the fans will doubtless see more. This is competent work, which, as the publishers put it, ‘creeps up on you.’” (Madison, WI, \u003cem\u003eCapital Times\u003c\/em\u003e, 1942)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNote\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Courtney Brade mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marian Gallagher Scott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36119619272861,"sku":"","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/0483\/1389\/products\/cover-atticroom.jpg?v=1599847644"},{"product_id":"dead-hands-reaching","title":"Scott: Dead Hands Reaching","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Beautiful Dallas Gantry, now a star of the New York stage, returns to the little village she had left fourteen years before to ask the husband from who she had fled to grant her a divorce. 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