Bob Christopher, investigative reporter for Channel 3 in Los Angeles, is an old hand at ferreting out consumer fraud. He hardly feels that an all-out effort to reinstate Saint Christopher to the church's calendar fits that category. Then the cleaning woman who had taken up the saint's cause is brutally murdered. Bob, guilty because he brushed the old woman off, is compelled to search for her killer. He finds himself dodging cloudbursts, raccoons, spilled blood, and his obsessed boss, who needs Bob's presence on the six o ...
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Bob Christopher, investigative reporter for Channel 3 in Los Angeles, is an old hand at ferreting out consumer fraud. He hardly feels that an all-out effort to reinstate Saint Christopher to the church's calendar fits that category. Then the cleaning woman who had taken up the saint's cause is brutally murdered. Bob, guilty because he brushed the old woman off, is compelled to search for her killer. He finds himself dodging cloudbursts, raccoons, spilled blood, and his obsessed boss, who needs Bob's presence on the six o'clock news to improve the ratings. Adding to his problems is his elusive film editor, an entrepreneur usually too busy peddling stolen porno tapes to work on the program. Through this hectic action wander rain-soaked fans in weird costumes vying for places and prizes on the station's game show. They make it easy for suspects--disguised as surgeons, nuns, and chickens--to melt into the crowd. As Bob Christopher approaches dead center of the web of murder, blackmail, chicanery, X-rated films, and station politics that infest Channel 3's rickety building, he gets closer to a killer who is out to make the reporter his next victim.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. BE1-A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with a light mark in black ink on the top outside paper edges made by the original owner. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some yellowing along the top edges of the front and back endflaps. This is one of the author's Bob Christopher detective series. The main character is an investigative reporter for a Los Angeles television station who specializes in ferreting out consumer fraud. The cleaning woman at the station, who happens to be involved in a strong effort to reinstate Saint Christopher on the Catholic Church's calendar, is found dead and the reporter feels compelled to search for her killer. He must hunt out the murderer within the web of blackmail, chicanery, X-rated film making, and station politics at the station's rickety building while at the same time the killer is trying to make the reporter his next victim. By the author of "Horizontal Hold, " "Freeze Frame, " "Jump Cut, " "The Devil's Breath, " "Footsteps, " and "The Face Out Front." 186p.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated by author on first free endpaper. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Slight wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Very mild shelfwear to heel of spine. 186 p. Audience: General/trade. By the author of 'Baptism for the Dead' and 'Pillar of Fire: A Moroni Traveler Mystery'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Forman, James [jacket] Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. Ex-Library Black boards, green metallic lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. Pages [186] clean, unmarked, binding tight, lean to spine. NON price-clipped DJ [$ 13.95] in mylar, clean, colors bright, minimal edge wear, attached to boards. A Bob Christopher mystery. Usual ex-libri markings. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. 1st printing of 1st edition. Fine HC in Near Fine DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; slight age darkening on fold-in flaps at edges; lightly shelf-scuffed. 8vo, 186 pp. This is a new, unread book that has been shuffled around the shelves.
