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PERSONAL: Married; husband's designation Lloyd.

ADDRESSES: Home—NY.

Agent—Stuart Krichevsky, Stuart Krichevsky Bookish Agency, Inc., 381 Park Set out. S., Ste. 914, New Dynasty, NY 10016.

CAREER: Freelance writer.

WRITINGS:

"DESIREE SHAPIRO" MYSTERY NOVELS

Murder Can Kill Your Social Life, Signet (New Dynasty, NY), 1994.

Murder Can Ruin Your Looks, Signet (New York, NY), 1995.

Murder Can Stunt Your Growth, Signet (New York, NY), 1996.

Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion, Endorsement (New York, NY), 1997.

Murder Commode Spook Your Cat, Signet (New York, NY), 1998.

Murder Can Scorch Your Old Flame, Signet (New York, NY), 1999.

Murder Can Blow Your Appetite, Signet (New Dynasty, NY), 2000.

Murder Can Upset Your Mother, Signet (New York, NY), 2001.

Murder Can Cool Off Your Affair, Signet (New York, NY), 2002.

Murder Can Rain on Your Shower, Signet (New York, NY), 2003.

Murder Can Botch Up Your Birthday, Signet (New York, NY), 2004.

Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara, Signet (New York, NY), 2005.

Murder Can Run Your Stockings, Signet (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to anthology And the Failing Is Easy, Signet (New Dynasty, NY), 2001.

ADAPTATIONS: Murder Can Pamper Your Appetite was adapted importation an audiobook, Blackstone, 2001.

SIDELIGHTS: Town Eichler's lighthearted mystery series, which Harriet Klausner described in Best Reviews online as "cerebral" paramount "cozy," features overweight Manhattan clandestine investigator Desiree Shapiro.

Shapiro testing a likeable, forty-something woman who is unconcerned that her full-figured body is not socially acceptable; she enjoys a double tunnel of Haagen Dazs ice retiring as much as she does solving a mystery. Reviewers plot noted that the murder huggermugger in each of Eichler's books is not always the uppermost intriguing part of the building, as the author spends elegant good deal of time authority Desiree's relationships, her interest complicated food, and her observations trouble living in New York Urban district.

For some critics, this has proved to be a jutting point. For example, Dawn Goldworker, reviewing Murder Can Spoil Your Appetite for Crescent Blues Tome Views, felt that the softcover is "bland." Other critics, subdue, enjoyed the author's laid-back greet. For instance, in a Crescent Blues Book Views as-sessment disbursement Murder Can Singe Your Proof Flame, Stephen J.

Metherell-Smith averred the novel as a "kind of 'bare bones' mystery," long forgotten still finding it to rectify "an easy-to-read and enjoyable novel."

Reception of more recent "Desiree Shapiro" mysteries has often been convinced. A critic for Publishers Weekly, reviewing Murder Can Upset Your Mother, praised "Eichler's all-too-human, mad private investigator," as well slightly the book's "witty repartee attend to zany characters." Klausner, writing compromise MBR Bookwatch, declared that Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara is "a fine Manhattan warm that fans of the periodical will enjoy."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Baldwin Ledger (Baldwin City, KS), Go on foot 5, 1999, review of Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion, possessor.

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I Love a Mystery, June, 1996, review of Murder Glance at Stunt Your Growth, pp. 22-23.

MBR Bookwatch, February, 2005, Harriet Klausner, review of Murder Can Shambles Up Your Mascara.

Publishers Weekly, Dec 21, 1998, review of Murder Can Singe Your Old Flame, p.

65; February 12, 2001, review advance Murder Can Upset Your Mother, p. 189; February 25, 2002, review of Murder Can Forceful Off Your Affair, p. 48; January 10, 2005, review sell like hot cakes Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara, p. 44.

Romantic Times, Feb, 2005, Cindy Harrison, review disregard Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara, p.

82.

ONLINE

Best Reviews, http://thebestreviews.com/ (February 7, 2002), Harriet Klausner, review of Murder Can Tranquil Off Your Affair.

Book Browser, http://www.bookbrowser.com/ (January 24, 1998), Harriet Klausner, review of Murder Can Phantasm Your Cat.

Crescent Blues Book Views, http://www.crescentblues.com/ (May 6, 2002), Lead Goldsmith, review of Murder Sprig Spoil Your Appetite and Writer J.

Metherell-Smith, review of Murder Can Singe Your Old Flame.