Casey Marinelli, newly promoted to Homicide in the San Francisco police department, has been assigned with her new partner, middle-aged Alonzo Hawkin, to the murders of three little girls in the area. They gradually uncover a pattern of evil so bizarre that Casey's carefully guarded private life is demolished.
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Casey Marinelli, newly promoted to Homicide in the San Francisco police department, has been assigned with her new partner, middle-aged Alonzo Hawkin, to the murders of three little girls in the area. They gradually uncover a pattern of evil so bizarre that Casey's carefully guarded private life is demolished.
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Fair. An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. CN6-A 4th printing hardcover book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.5"x5.75". 310 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. BU5-An uncorrected advance proof paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, label info adhered on the back, publicist business card stapled on the opposite side of the front, light tanning and shelf wear. An extraordinary first novel, peopled with characters readers will never forget. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.25"x5.5", 310 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Casey Martinelli, newly promoted to Homicide in the San Francisco police department, has been assigned with her new partner, middle-aged Alonzo Hawkin, to the murders of three little girls in the area. Casey has secrets of her own, but she can't let her unfamiliarity with the job, her caution relationship with Hawkin, or her private life take her attention from the case. The killer could strike again at any time and the crimes have the police, the city administration, and the citizens of the Bay Area in crisis. The search closes in on an odd colony of mismatched people living in the wooded hills near the city and on a brilliant painter, a compelling woman with a past of grievous crime and imprisonment, living incognito in the colony. As Casey and Hawkin grow familiar with the woman and with the others of this odd group, and as they learn more about the pasts of the people involved, their own relationship develops trust and even friendship. And what they gradually uncover reveals a pattern of evil so bizarre that the wall-Casey has erected between her work and her carefully guarded private life is demolished, and love in all its forms becomes inextricably mingled with danger and true wickedness. A Grave Talent combines moving portraits of complex and likable human beings with riveting suspense; it is a novel that will bot be easily forgotten.
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Good in Very Good jacket. 0312088043 First Edition/First Printing, black cloth boards-only issue keeping this copy from being rated very good condition are the tape scars at the bottom and top edge of the front and rear boards which are covered by the dust jacket, Dust Jacket wrapped-jacket price not clipped, clean, has a very good binding, no marks or notations.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Boldly SIGNED By Author on the Title Page In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Signed and inscribed, 'For-' Author's dazzling debut and Edgar Award-winning novel. Homicide detective Casey Martinelli investigates the murder of an eight year old girl centered around an odd rural colony outside San Francisco. Light erasure to flyleaf.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. 1993, First Edition, first issue with inverted Hebrew writing on the dedication page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An excellent, signed copy of this Edgar Award Winner.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author 1st edition, February 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by King on the title page. The author's first book and the EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best first Novel. This is the TRUE first edition with the Hebrew dedication printed upside down.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition, first issue with the inverted Hebrew dedication. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Winner of the 1994 Edgar Award for first novel.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition, first issue with the inverted Hebrew dedication. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. A nice copy of this Edgar Award winner. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
