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Pall, Ellen Jane was born on March 28, 1952 in New York City. Daughter of David B. and Josephine H. (Blatt) Pall.
( There's nothing like murder to cure a case of writer's ...)
There's nothing like murder to cure a case of writer's block. Regency romance writer Juliet Bodine is falling into despair. Instead of writing, she spends her days staring at the pages of her unfinished novel, fantasizing about her inevitable failure. So the arrival of an eighty-four-year-old fan with a trove of yellowing papers to show is a welcome diversion instead of the nuisance it might have been. Demanding, outspoken, stylish, outrageous, and still dripping with sexual flair, Ada Caffrey is everything Juliet is not. But Juliet's bemused delight in her eccentric visitor changes to electric shock when she realizes Ada has stumbled upon a suppressed fragment of the blockbuster memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Regency England's wittiest, most notorious courtesan. One week later, Ada is dead and the manuscript is gone. Could a two-hundred-old sexual indiscretion be worth killing for? In Slightly Abridged, the second installment in Ellen Pall's Nine Muses mystery series, Juliet teams up with NYPD detective Murray Landis to find out.
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( It's not as if Juliet Bodine wishes that she'd stayed a...)
It's not as if Juliet Bodine wishes that she'd stayed an English professor instead of becoming a successful romance novelist. It's just that writing, though interesting, is never easy, and she will do almost anything to avoid her desk. So she succumbs to the pleas of her friend Ruth, a renowned choreographer, to help translate Dickens' Great Expectations into ballet form. Watching the magnificent dancers work is fascinating. But Juliet soon finds the company plagued by jealousies, subterranean liaisons, ugly sabotage, and-sudden death. Could it be murder? NYPD detective Murray Landis is skeptical. But Juliet-who is startled to recognize in Murray the budding sculptor who dated her college roommate years ago-disagrees, and turns her novelist's sense of plot and character to detection. Can she and Murray unmask the ruthless choreographer of a pas de death? Fast, witty, and literate, Corpse de Ballet marks the dazzling debut of the Nine Muses Mysteries featuring Juliet Bodine and Murray Landis.
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Pall, Ellen Jane was born on March 28, 1952 in New York City. Daughter of David B. and Josephine H. (Blatt) Pall.
Bachelor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973.
Freelance writer for several journals, since 1987. Staff associate Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury, Vermont, 1986. Instructor University of California at Los Angeles-Ext., 1980-1983.
Adjunct assistant professor Fordham University/College at Lincoln Center, New York City, 1990-1993.
( It's not as if Juliet Bodine wishes that she'd stayed a...)
( There's nothing like murder to cure a case of writer's ...)
Member American Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (freedom to write committee).
Married Richard Holmes Dicker, July 12, 1986. 1 child, Benjamin.