Checked Out: A Dead-End Job Mystery [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Viets, Elaine
Sold by Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 20 March 2019
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 20 March 2019
Condition: Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFine condition white boards, purple spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Elaine Viets; Author Dedication; and Acknowledgments. Signed by the author with black pen at the lower section of the full title page. "Shhh. Helen Hawthorne quietly goes undercover at a local library to search for a missing masterpiece. A Brush with Death. Wealthy socialite Elizabth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father. After his death, many of Davis Kingsley's books were donated to the Flora Park Library, and his daughter suspects the small watercolor - worth one million dollars - was tucked away inside one of those dusty tomes. To search the stacks, Helen applies for a job as a library volunteer and discovers the library director has a catalog of complaints - from a mischievous calico cat named Paris to the mysterious disappearance of various items that some of the more imaginative staff are attributing to a ghost haunting the building. While her husband, Phil, sticks his neck out to find a missing necklace, Helen is on her own, with no one to lend her a hand. When a dead body turns up in a parking lot, it appears someone is willing to go to any lengths to keep the treasure in the library quiet. Now Helen is bound and determined to find the killer as well as the painting - before she's taken out of circulation herself." - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elaine Viets has actually worked many of those dead-end jobs in her mystery novels, just like her character Helen Hawthorne. She is also the author of the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series and numerous short stories. Elaine has won an Anthony Award and an Agatha Award. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband, reporter Don Crinklaw.
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