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In the shadows of 1952 Hot Springs, reporter Sydney Lockhart trades her pen for peril, unraveling a murder that entangles her in a lethal dance with gangsters, gamblers, and her own survival. It's 1952. Reporter Sydney Lockhart checks into the historic Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Before she even unpacks, she discovers the brutally murdered body of the hotel's bookkeeper. What had begun as a simple travel-writing assignment now turns into a murder investigation. The bad news is that Sydney is a suspect. Determined to clear her name and prove herself a reporter deserving more than just travel assignments, Sydney becomes embroiled in the underworld of gangsters and gamblers. In her fight for the truth, she soon faces a more urgent battle-saving her own skin. She also meets a handsome investigator. Can Sydney solve the crime to save her skin? Find out in the first book in the Sydney Lockhart Mystery series, Murder at the Arlington.

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""What is it like reading a Sydney Lockhart Mystery? Picture, if you will, Carl Hiaasen writing a classic film noir featuring the zany; red-haired reporter Sydney Lockhart who somehow gets herself into more tight situations than Lucille Ball did in a whole season of I Love Lucy."" -Bruce Rolfe, author of the Chip Hale Handyman Mysteries ""With the tenacity of a terrier and her hilarious antics to solve murders, Sydney Lockhart will whisk you away on a vintage sleuthing ride. The combination of a smidge of romance, a dash of curiosity, and a whole lot of snooping makes this historic series funny and original. Never a dull moment with rollicking scenes that will entice you until the very end, The Sydney Lockhart Series is witty, engaging, and a perfect cozy mystery read."" -Minette Lauren, author of The Hot Magnolia Series. ""Sydney Lockhart is one of the feistiest, funniest P.I.'s in Texas-or anywhere else! '50s pop culture and a crowd of quirky characters make Kaska's latest mystery a killer read."" -Sheila Webster Boneham, author of Catwalk and the other Animals in Focus Mysteries

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Kathleen Kaska is the author of the award-winning mystery series: the Sydney Lockhart Mystery Series set in the 1950s and the Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Mystery Series. Her first two Lockhart mysteries; Murder at the Arlington and Murder at the Luther; were selected as bonus books for the Pulpwood Queen Book Group; the country's largest book group. She also writes mystery trivia. The Sherlock Holmes Quiz Book was published by Rowman & Littlefield. Her Holmes short story; ""The Adventure at Old Basingstoke;"" appears in Sherlock Holmes of Baking Street; a Belanger Books anthology. She is the founder of The Dogs in the Nighttime; the Sherlock Holmes Society of Anacortes; Washington; a scion of The Baker Street Irregulars.

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