Too often his police department has winked at evil, so a police inspector decides to use his lottery winnings to get the goods on an unscrupulous antiques dealer in this highly suspenseful mystery. The author of over 30 novels, Keating has been awarded the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award and has twice won the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
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Too often his police department has winked at evil, so a police inspector decides to use his lottery winnings to get the goods on an unscrupulous antiques dealer in this highly suspenseful mystery. The author of over 30 novels, Keating has been awarded the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award and has twice won the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Remainder mark on top o/w an excellent copy, fine condition in fine dj---New York: The Mysterious Press 1993, First US Edition 1st printing, hardcover n dust jacket, 248 pages, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 SERIES-A Detective Inspector Sylvester Mystery.
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Cvr Art By Earl Keleny. Good++ Very Good Dust Jacket. Book. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4" Slight edgewear except top rear cover which has a small bump about 1" inward from cover edge. The paper has been torn at this place. Scant wear to dust jacket except for the tiny tear at the impact point on top rear cover. Clean interior. 248 pages.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 1st edition, April 1993, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Keating's latest mystery is a sophisticated work: a slice of edgy crime fiction that hints at dark obsessions percolating beneath the surface of William Sylvester, a detective inspector with South Mercia CID. Often the butt of his colleague's jokes, Bill is a resolute, miserly, somewhat lonely chap. He lives for the hunt, taking the occasional break for Jude, a kindly whore, and a Spanish holiday. While on the latter he buys a lottery ticket and wins a million quid. Suddenly his solitary life changes. The old leather jacket looks a shade beat up. But more important, his unease with his superiors becomes intolerable. Sylvester is convinced that antique dealer Charles Roanoke is a killer, separating several wealthy nursing-home residents from their fortunes, then mysteriously killing them off. But proving the influential Roanoke's guilt from within the force is hard. Proving it after resigning becomes an exercise in almost deranged determination that Keating ( Dead on Time ) masterfully depicts. There are comic asides (a couple of would-be victims prove stubborn, refusing either to die or to fork over their resources), but for the most part events are somber and endlessly frustrating as Bill adjusts to a new life of leisure, with the core of his daily existence ripped out of him."---PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
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