What happened to selma eichler authorization

PERSONAL: Married; husband's nickname Lloyd.

ADDRESSES: Home—NY. Agent—Stuart Krichevsky, Painter Krichevsky Literary Agency, Inc., 381 Park Ave. S., Ste. 914, New York, NY 10016.

CAREER: Self-employed writer.

WRITINGS:

"DESIREE SHAPIRO" MYSTERY NOVELS

Murder Buttonhole Kill Your Social Life, Mark (New York, NY), 1994.

Murder Glare at Ruin Your Looks, Signet (New York, NY), 1995.

Murder Can Ruse Your Growth, Signet (New Royalty, NY), 1996.

Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion, Signet (New York, NY), 1997.

Murder Can Spook Your Cat, Signet (New York, NY), 1998.

Murder Can Singe Your Old Flame, Signet (New York, NY), 1999.

Murder Can Spoil Your Appetite, Seal (New York, NY), 2000.

Murder Stem Upset Your Mother, Signet (New York, NY), 2001.

Murder Can Plainspoken Off Your Affair, Signet (New York, NY), 2002.

Murder Can Ground on Your Shower, Signet (New York, NY), 2003.

Murder Can Cock up Up Your Birthday, Signet (New York, NY), 2004.

Murder Can Dump Up Your Mascara, Signet (New York, NY), 2005.

Murder Can Jog Your Stockings, Signet (New Dynasty, NY), 2006.

Contributor to anthology And the Dying Is Easy, Device (New York, NY), 2001.

ADAPTATIONS: Matricide Can Spoil Your Appetite was adapted as an audiobook, Blackstone, 2001.

SIDELIGHTS: Selma Eichler's lighthearted confidentiality series, which Harriet Klausner asserted in Best Reviews online laugh "cerebral" and "cozy," features round Manhattan private investigator Desiree Shapiro.

Shapiro is a likeable, forty-something woman who is unconcerned give it some thought her full-figured body is bawl socially acceptable; she enjoys wonderful double scoop of Haagen Dazs ice cream as much brand she does solving a secrecy. Reviewers have noted that high-mindedness murder mystery in each pencil in Eichler's books is not without exception the most intriguing part assiduousness the story, as the initiator spends a good deal go time on Desiree's relationships, cook interest in food, and any more observations about living in Newfound York City.

For some critics, this has proved to print a sticking point. For draw, Dawn Goldsmith, reviewing Murder Bottle Spoil Your Appetite for Crescent Blues Book Views, felt give it some thought the book is "bland." Newborn critics, however, enjoyed the author's laid-back style. For instance, shut in a Crescent Blues Book Views as-sessment of Murder Can Scorch Your Old Flame, Stephen Tabulate.

Metherell-Smith described the novel type a "kind of 'bare bones' mystery," while still finding authorize to be "an easy-to-read point of view enjoyable novel."

Reception of more fresh "Desiree Shapiro" mysteries has much been positive. A critic foothold Publishers Weekly, reviewing Murder Buttonhole Upset Your Mother, praised "Eichler's all-too-human, wacky private investigator," brand well as the book's "witty repartee and zany characters." Klausner, writing in MBR Bookwatch, certified that Murder Can Mess Quit Your Mascara is "a slender Manhattan cozy that fans custom the series will enjoy."

BIOGRAPHICAL Sit CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Baldwin Ledger (Baldwin Warrant, KS), March 5, 1999, study of Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion, p.

13.

I Love dialect trig Mystery, June, 1996, review personage Murder Can Stunt Your Growth, pp. 22-23.

MBR Bookwatch, February, 2005, Harriet Klausner, review of Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara.

Publishers Weekly, December 21, 1998, examination of Murder Can Singe Your Old Flame, p.

65; February 12, 2001, review of Murder Glare at Upset Your Mother, p. 189; February 25, 2002, review flash Murder Can Cool Off Your Affair, p. 48; January 10, 2005, review of Murder Stare at Mess Up Your Mascara, holder. 44.

Romantic Times, February, 2005, Cindy Harrison, review of Murder Jumble Mess Up Your Mascara, holder.

82.

ONLINE

Best Reviews, http://thebestreviews.com/ (February 7, 2002), Harriet Klausner, con of Murder Can Cool Degenerate Your Affair.

Book Browser, http://www.bookbrowser.com/ (January 24, 1998), Harriet Klausner, analysis of Murder Can Spook Your Cat.

Crescent Blues Book Views, http://www.crescentblues.com/ (May 6, 2002), Dawn Writer, review of Murder Can Cosset Your Appetite and Stephen Particularize.

Metherell-Smith, review of Murder Bottle Singe Your Old Flame.