Japantown

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. BA2 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Barry Lancet to previous owner on the author's label adhered on the page after the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chiipping and crease on the edges and corners, some small wrinkled patches on the spine, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. FIVE BODIES. ONE CLUE. NOT A TRACE OF THE KILLER. 9.5"x6.5", 400 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie recently inherited a stake in his father's Tokyo-based private investigation firm, which means the single father of six-year-old Jenny is living a busy intercontinental life, traveling to Japan to acquire art and artifacts for his store and consulting on Brodie Security's caseload at home and abroad. One night, an entire family is gunned down in San Francisco's bustling Japantown neighborhood, and Brodie is called on by the SFPD to decipher the lone clue left at the come scene" a unique Japanese character printed on a slip of paper drenched in blood. Brodie can't read the clue. But he may have seen it before - at the scene of his wife's death in a house fire four years ago. With his dep array of Asian connections and fluency in Japanese, Brodie sets out to solve a seemingly perfect crime and at the same time learn whether his wife's tragic death was more than just an accident. And as he unravels a web of intrigue stretching back centuries and connected to the murders in San Francisco, the Japantown killer retaliates with a new target: Brodie's daughter.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.