Madeleine's Ghost

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Madeline's Ghost
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First edition
Author Robert Girardi
Country United States
Language English
Genre Mystery novel
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date
1995
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages356 pp
ISBN 0-385-31482-5
OCLC 31606778
813/.54 20
LC Class PS3557.I694 M3 1995

Madeleine's Ghost is a first mystery novel by Robert Girardi. [1] [2]

Publishing history

An editor for Delacorte Press found the manuscript for Madeleine's Ghost on a friend's coffee table and fell in love with the story. [3]

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  1. Alix Madrigal (October 26, 1997). "Ghosts of Venice Speak to a Vapid Modern World". San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. Patricia Volk (August 6, 1995). "Brooklyn Needs a Saint". The New York Times.
  3. Washington Post, 17 July 1995, p.B-5