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The condo kill

Richard Barth

1985215 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1985
first published
  • 1985Scribner · 215 pages · ENGISBN 9780684184746
  • 1986Thorndike Press · 280 pages · ENGISBN 9780896217096

Thelma and Angelo are the only tenants left in their old building on the Upper West Side of New York. The landlord, who wants the building emptied for a major real estate deal, has already harassed the other eighteen residents into leaving. And as the persecution escalates from imported cockroach infestations to muggings, Thelma and Angelo are about ready to give up too. Then the feisty righter-of-wrongs, Margaret Binton, takes up their cause = recruiting a rag-tag band of neighbourhood seniors into the fray, forcing the landlord out of his safe corporate anonymity. But two-legged rats are just as dangerous as the four-legged kind. In fact, they can be killers...

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