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Review: 'Murder at the Academy Awards' by Joan Rivers
Imagine Miss Marple in Manolos. A Michael Kors gown. Some Botox. OK, a lot of Botox. With a plastic surgeon - on speed-dial. Transport her from an English village to Oscar night's red carpet, and you've got a sense of Maxine Taylor, mystery fiction's newest sleuth. And Joan Rivers' alter ego.
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