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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. " A mix of murder and magic in the Florida sunshine as only Hoffman (Seventh Heaven, 1990, etc.) could conjure it. Verity, Florida, once known for live alligators, is now better known for alligator salads (a mix of spinach, peppers, avocado and chopped eggs, tinted green), as well as for having more divorced women from New York than any other town in the state of Florida. Lucy Rosen is one of those women. She has recently moved to Verity, and what she doesn't know yet is that in May, when the turtles come out and crawl across the roads, anything can happen. People go crazy. Dogs bite. Ficus hedges burst into flame. This particular May, a woman in Lucy's condo complex is murdered, her baby is missing, and Lucy's own son, Keith, has vanished as well. With the assistance of Julian Cash, a reclusive Verity… Leer más

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1992. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A MATT SCUDDER MYSTERY. The basis for the 2014 movie starring Liam Neeson. "Despite their dark titles (the words Slaughterhouse and Boneyard figured in the previous two), Block's splendid, award-winning Matt Scudder novels are by no means unrelievedly bleak. His latest-as well as offering the customary skillful plotting, adroit pacing and sure sense of New York character-features a wry humor all its own, along with a particularly ingratiating and convincing pair of computer hackers. The premise is grim, certainly: a pair of men who prey murderously on women progress to kidnapping the womenfolk of drug dealers and demanding huge ransoms. Former alcoholic PI Scudder-now going to more AA meetings than ever-reluctantly agrees to help one dealer, a Lebanese, after his wife is killed by the kidnappers. Slowly and… Leer más

N.Y.: Putnam, 1980. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. They had just 48 hours to find him. Then tanks would roll across the desert. The flow of oil from the Persian Gulf would stop. Around the globe, lights would dim and life would grind to a dead halt. Everything hinged on Toby Rinaldi - the boy whose father was the key to vital Mideast negotiations. . .the boy whose ransom the world could not afford to pay. . .the eight-year-old whiz-kid who had been put aboard a flight to San Francisco and mysteriously disappeared.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Walker, 1987. 1st ed., fine in dj,. 1916 San Francisco. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.