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Retired psychologist Alex Delaware's reluctant treatment of a seven-year-old eyewitness to murder who refuses to speak forces him to relive the distasteful case that prompted his early retirement
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A gruesome psychodrama of depravity and organised vice...assured skill and horripilating effect (OBSERVER 'Exceptionally exciting')
NEW YORK TIMES 'Ingenious and horrifying (SUNDAY TIMES)
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A breathtaking novel of the sewer of perversion and corruption lying below the glittering surface of California cool.
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0689115199
- ISBN 13 9780689115196
- BindingHardcover
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ISBN 10: 0689115199
ISBN 13: 9780689115196
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Larger, sturdy book, maroon cloth spine, dark gray boards, silver lettering bright on spine, 293 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar, gray background, a color-illustration of girl kneeling on front, purple lettering with white edging on front, blue spine, a photograph of author on most of back. DJ has light surface wear to top front edge, crease along top front, very slight surface wear at spine top, slight wear with two mocro-nicks at spine bottom edge, 1/4" tear at top back edge. Good DJ/Fine book. Seller Inventory # 064636
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ISBN 10: 0689115199
ISBN 13: 9780689115196
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