Fadeaway Girl (Emma Graham)
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ISBN: 0670022446 / Publisher: Viking, February 2011
Twelve-year-old Emma Graham continues her investigation into the disappearance of the Slade baby twenty years earlier, a case that is shaped by the child's father's unexpected appearance and the arrival of a charismatic drifter.
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The beguiling young sleuth Emma Graham returns. Martha Grimes returns to her twelve-year-old heroine, Emma Graham, in this suspenseful sequel to the bestsellingBelle Ruin. Emma continues her investigation into the strange disappearance of the four- month-old Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel more than twenty years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father, Morris Slade, makes her even more determined to learn the truth. Then a mysterious drifter named Ralph Diggs appears at the Hotel Paradise, looking for work, ingratiating himself with everyone there. Everyone, that is, except Emma.The perceptive Emma is bound once again to delight fans of the previous books Hotel Paradise, Cold Flat Junction, and Belle Ruin, and certain to win new readers with her intuition and humor.
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