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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First edition. Author's first novel features Naval Intelligence officer Defoe. Dust jacket has edgewear & bottom crease. Review copy with PR sheet. First printing. Seller Inventory # 1095
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small Tears. Seller Inventory # 2077
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover is in near-fine condition (bumped on the bottom of the spine). Dust jacket is in very good condition (small tears at the creases and spine, yellowed, scratched/rubbed on the front and back covers and edge wear). Brodart protected. 313 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author's first novel. Smelly and filthy after a solitary canoe trip, Chase arrives as a stranger in a Pennsylvania town, finds the body of another stranger, David Spencer, and is held on the murder charge. His credentials quickly established, as a former U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer, Defoe is free to investigate the murder and the killer's motive. Spencer had been asking questions about Ava Dixon, certified as accidentally drowned years earlier, in 1951. Now Defoe probes deeper: inquiring about rumors that Ava had been gang-raped by the town's then-young elite men and killed to ensure her silence. Seller Inventory # 9925
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition. Hardcover, INSCRIBED and signed by the author and dated in the year of publication on the half title page. A fine tight copy in a near fine dust jacket (just some rubbing to the edges). Protected in a mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 1665
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publicity info laid in. Author's first book and first Chase Defoe title. Smelly and filthy after a solitary canoe trip, Chase arrives as a stranger in a Pennsylvania town, finds the body of another stranger, David Spencer, and is held on the murder charge. His credentials quickly established, as a former U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer, Defoe is free to investigate the murder and the killer's motive. Spencer had been asking questions about Ava Dixon, certified as accidentally drowned years earlier, in 1951. Now Defoe probes deeper: inquiring about rumors that Ava had been gang-raped by the town's then-young elite men and killed to ensure her silence. Book. Seller Inventory # 001583