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Time Off For Murder
by Zelda Popkin
Price: $7.50
ISBN: 1-886420-20-3

Zelda Popkin made a definite place for herself when her first mystery novel Death Wears a White Gardenia was published. The New York Times Book Review said: "Zelda Popkin has a genuine talent for writing mystery stories." The Saturday Review's Guide to Detective Fiction, The Criminal Record, pronounced the Verdict, "Good!" In Time Off For Murder Mary Carner, the efficient department store detective, leaves her job at Blankfort's Fifth Avenue Store when her friend, Phyllis Knight, a young socialite attorney is found murdered after having been missing for six months. Inspector Heinsheimer of the New York Homicide Squad admires Mary Carner and is willing to work with her but - Mary is finally on her own entirely; poking into the affairs of Rockey Nardello who is doing time as leader of a numbers racket gang. Dangerous? . . . so Mary Carner found out! Smart, tough, sophisticated, fast, Time Off For Murder will keep mystery fans burning the midnight oil


About the Author

From the St. Louis Jewish Light:

Zelda F. Popkin, was a novelist, magazine writer, publicist, and author of fourteen books, including her autobiography, Open Every Door. She was born in New York on July 5, 1898. She became the first woman general assignment reporter on the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader at the age of 17.

She left the Times Leader in 1917 to attend the Columbia University School of Journalism for two years. In 1919 she married Louis Popkin and worked with him in the public relations business until his death in 1943. During this same period she wrote for a number of magazines including Survey, the New Yorker, Parents and American Hebrew. She has also been published in Readers Digest. Death Wears a White Gardenia, her first novel, was published during this period. Many of her books have been published in French and German.

Other books include Quiet Street, based on the siege of Jerusalem during the Israeli War of Independence and dramatized on television by NBC, Death of Innocence which became a CBS made-for-television movie and Herman had Two Daughters and Dear Once which both deal with Jewish life in America.