Shoot the Piper: A Randall Gatsby Sierra Mystery de Hill, Richard - 1994-04-01

196 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Having succeeded in bilking an interested publisher out of a $500,000 advance while still holding on to the manuscript of his long- awaited second novel, '60s survivor Jock MacLeod, the Pied Piper of the Apocalypse, takes off on a self-guided literary tour of Britain. His old buddy, PI Randall Gatsby Sierra, dispatched to look for him before he runs into too much trouble, follows his trail to Canterbury, York, West Lulworth (home of ``Dover Beach'' and fetching barmaid Emma Poole), Bath (where two men, a Scot and a Pict who've been following MacLeod, nearly kill Gat), Stratford-upon-Avon (where Gat hears about MacLeod's extemporized Rappin' Romeo), Oxford (where Gat reads a note from MacLeod theorizing that the mind-altering datura plant actually consumes plutonium), and Workington (just upwind from the Sellafield nuclear plant), before a shaggy-dog… Leer más

St Martins Pr, 1994-04. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.7500 in x 8.5000 in x 6.0000 in. Hardcover

St Martins Pr, 1994-04. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.7500 in x 8.5000 in x 6.0000 in. Ex-Library. Hardcover.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1994. Jacket is clean and colorfully illustrated, with some edge and corner wear. Cover is black paper, on boards, with very minor edge and corner wear. Spine is black paper with gold gilt lettering. Cover, Pages and Binding are clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St Martins Pr. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

St Martins Pr, April 1994. Hardcover. Used - Good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. hardcover. SIGNED by Hill on the front endpaper. Additionally inscribed and signed by the author on the title page along with some inked stamps he has added. Also, he has handwritten another title on the biliography page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket which is now covered in mylar.

St Martin's Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. (1st edition, 1st printing) Sturdy book, black covers, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 196 pages. On first front end paper in black ink: "Richard Hill." DJ glossy with color-illustration of man in trenchcoat on front, praise from James Crumley, black spine and back with praise from Lewis Black, Stuart Kaminsky and others. DJ and book, both As New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical Description; 196 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Americans. Americans Great Britain Fiction. D�tectives Grande-Bretagne Romans, nouvelles, etc. Fiction. Great Britain. Mystery fiction. Private investigators. Private investigators Great Britain Fiction. Sierra, Randall Gatsby (Fictitious character). Sierra, Randall Gatsby (Fictitious character) Fiction.