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ISBN: 1901982858
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 256pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: April 2000

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Sparkle Hayter is a 40-something Canadian stand-up comedian and an Afghan War TV reporter. There are currently five Robin Hudson novels, What's A Girl Gotta Do, Nice Girls Finish Last, Revenge of the Cootie Girls, The Last Manly Man and The Chelsea Girl Murders all available from No Exit.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

When a fire forces TV newswoman Robin Hudson to vacate her apartment, she and her cat Louise Bryant move into the legendary Chelsea Hotel, the bohemian hostelry where artists both famous and infamous have long lived in semi-peaceful coexistence with countless hangers-on, wannabes, and rubberneckers looking for the 'real' New York. A smoky-eyed man she's just met dies in an apparent suicide, but Robin's not so sure. Could it be murder? Maybe even the last word in performance art? Is it related in some way to the star-crossed and rather irritable young lovers who have appealed to Robin for help?

To sort it out, Robin must brave the whole downtown thing and more: guerrilla artists, jealous women, brooding poets, feuding magicians, art forgers, and befuddled tourists. Oh, and plus ... one final, terrible complication: Robin seems to have fallen accidentally in love. Will Robin get the bad guy? The good guy?

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...Sparkle Hayter is a wonderful writer..." - Marian Keyes, Time Out

"...The funniest thing to come out of Canada since the moose..." - Red

"...a riotous novel as original as her own name..." - Gary Flockhart, Scotland online