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Ruby Murphy is back—back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds—and her life is nothing if not complicated. She has plenty to worry about: a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; a few fine horses; and the sure knowledge that a killer is lurking.

Copyright © 2006 by Maggie Estep

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Estep, Maggie.

Flamethrower: a Ruby Murphy mystery / Maggie Estep.— 1st ed.

(alk. paper)

1. Women detectives—New York (State)—New York—Fiction.

2. Coney Island (New York, N.Y)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3555.S754F63 2006

813’.54—dc22        2006003885

eISBN: 978-0-307-52381-5

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