Bubbles Unbound: (The Bubbles Yablonsky Mystery Series Book 1) ***AWARD WINNER ***

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 2001. 1st edition. March 2001 Tiny indent at top of 2 pages else fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. WINNER of the AGATHA AWARD for best first novel and Nominated for a BARRY AWARD. The first Bubbles Yablonsky title set in Lehigh, PA. "Meet Bubbles Yablonsky, beautician-reporter-sleuth and blazing star of Strohmeyer's entertaining, establishment-bashing debut as a mystery writer. Like the mills that gird the book's seen-better-days steel town of Lehigh, Pa., the city is itself a seething cauldron. Battle lines are sharply drawn between the haves and have-nots. Bubbles is hell-bent on getting even with the overlords, especially her former husband, a heel who has gone over to the other side. Opportunity knocks when Bubbles incriminates a wealthy socialite in a brutal murder and then uncovers a murky past, where corpses are littered around the accused's steel-magnate husband. The going is never easy, as Bubbles faces more perils than Pauline: falling off a bridge in the arms of a potential suicide; dodging drive-by gunmen and car bombers; being handcuffed and fitted for cement boots; and always searching for a better way to display her cleavage. Armed with her certificate from Two Guys Community College, abetted by a quirky array of social castoffs and fueled by Doritos, Velveeta and Diet Pepsi, Bubbles overcomes every obstacle on her way to shaking the foundations of the corporate world and, in the process, leaving more than a few wrinkles in her ex's tailored Brooks Brothers suits. Hop in the Camaro and buckle up: Bubbles is behind the wheel, and a wild ride awaits." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.