Caught Dead in Philadelphia () is a book written by Gillian Roberts and published by

Scribner Press Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawli ...

- now owned by Simon & Schuster (''originally by Fawcett Publications'') - on 16 October 1987 which later went on to win the

Anthony Award The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America. Among the m ...

for Best First Novel in 1988.

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