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Working at his brother-in-law's New Orleans funeral home isn't reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney's idea of excitement -- until he's dispatched to a leper's hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive ... and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans.... read more

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EVERY TIME THEY GOT A CALL from the leper hospital to pick up a body Jack Delaney would feel himself coming down with the flu or something.

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  1. Elmore Leonard (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Arbor House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0877958416
Page Count: 345

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  • Library of Congress: PS3562.E55 B3 1987
  • Dewey: 813.54

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