About Writing This Book:

Perhaps it was a consequence of a bout with tourista, but I found the reputedly charming old city of Strasbourg less than enchanting. The canals were murky and odiferous, the world famous cathedral was swathed in plastic and under repair, and the city streets were hot, dry and dusty. A good place to send Anna, who wound up there after being dispatched to France by her corporate masters. So much of the effect of mysteries depends on an atmospheric background, and I liked the contrast between the elegance of Paris, where the young Blythes are living luxurious and feckless lives, and the seedy reality of provincial Strasbourg.

Synopsis:

Anna Peters, the unorthodox New World Oil Company researcher, learns the price of the good research job she obtained after her successful adventures in The Big Payoff. The Chairman of the Board wants her to do a little favor: track down Crystal Blythe, a young woman soon to inherit the lion's share of New World stock. Crystal and her twin brother, Edward, have been living in France, and Anna is dispatched on a working holiday to locate the missing girl. Better than being sent out for coffee, but not Anna's idea of the ideal assignment.

Still, Paris, art, culture, great food make the trip, itself, sound terrific. Unfortunately for Anna and her artist lover, Harry Radford, the young Blythes have gotten themselves into bad company, including gun runners and espionage agents from two countries. Anna learns she canšt trust the charming and talented Blythes and wonders if they can trust each other.

Gemini Triphas been issued in British editions, Japanese and Danish editions and was a selection of the Detective Book Club.

Contemporary quotes and reviews:

"At the end Anna gets things straight, making as sweetly unscrupulous a deal as she had done in the Big Payoff. A lot of fun." NY Times Book Review, 9/11/77

"An exciting encore for Anna Peters fans" Worcester Sun Telegram 9/18/77

"Anna is often in danger, and she gets caught up in a hair-raising car chase, but most of the action is intellectual rather than physical and she matches wits with some tough old pros."Publisher's Weekly, 6/13/77

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