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Gray, Amy. Spygirl: True Adventures from My Life as a Private Eye.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

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| September 15, 2003 | Engberg, Gillian | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Library Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Sept. 2003. 256p. Villard, paper, $12.95 (0-8129-7152-3). 363.28.

Anxious to trade the "corporate hell" of a low-paying publishing job for greater adventure, Gray, a twentysomething New Yorker, takes a job as a private investigator. In this Sex in the City sleuthing memoir, Gray shifts between days researching crooks with her raunchy, oddball colleagues and evenings in hipster bars searching for some semblance of love. Readers expecting suspenseful, tightly woven detective stories will be disappointed; much of Gray's account of her job focuses on ...

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