The Silkworm. A Cormoran Strike Novel

London England: Sphere. Fine/Near Fine. 2014. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9781408704028 Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Silkworm. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private Detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wantes Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The noveloist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knws. If the novel is published it will ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before. A cmpulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn. The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott. 456 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .