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Snapshot
de Linda Barnes (1949- ) inscribed
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385306121
- ISBN 13
- 9780385306126
- Librería
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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325 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over grey boards in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by the author. First edition.
Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is "the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine" Carlotta Carlyle is sorting through her junk mail when she finds a snapshot of a newborn baby she has never seen before. One week later, another arrives showing the same child one year older. The next week, a third arrives. As the deliveries continue, Carlotta becomes obsessed with this unnamed little girl and is drawn into one of the most dangerous assignments of her career.
The girl was named Rebecca and she died of leukemia at the age of seven. Her grief-stricken mother has never been able to accept what happened, so she hires Carlotta to investigate the highly regarded hospital where someone on staff seems to have forgotten the most important lesson of a doctor's training: Do no harm. Snapshot is the 5th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Condition: Inscription to title. Previous owner's name to front end paper some light soiling to fore edge pages else very good in a fine jacket.
Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is "the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine" Carlotta Carlyle is sorting through her junk mail when she finds a snapshot of a newborn baby she has never seen before. One week later, another arrives showing the same child one year older. The next week, a third arrives. As the deliveries continue, Carlotta becomes obsessed with this unnamed little girl and is drawn into one of the most dangerous assignments of her career.
The girl was named Rebecca and she died of leukemia at the age of seven. Her grief-stricken mother has never been able to accept what happened, so she hires Carlotta to investigate the highly regarded hospital where someone on staff seems to have forgotten the most important lesson of a doctor's training: Do no harm. Snapshot is the 5th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Condition: Inscription to title. Previous owner's name to front end paper some light soiling to fore edge pages else very good in a fine jacket.
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El Sep 6 2007, Hazelwood_Booksellers dijo:
Like the male P.I.'s of the Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane era before her, Linda Barnes stays true to the hard-boiled detective personification, but takes the "male" out of a male dominated genre, replacing them with a female in grand, classic style. And like her counterparts of yesteryear, Barnes heroine, Carlotta Carlyle, is rough and savvy, but with a heart-of-gold and an underlying compassion. In this mystery thriller she's digging for answers of a child's death, helping her little sister from the Big Sister Organization find a father she's never known, shaking up one of Boston's most prestigious hospitals, and healing some old wounds of her own; while she combats a deadly conspiracy of the forces of hypocrisy and corruption in the big city. Barnes creates a character in Carlyle of wit and gravity, tough and beautiful, flippant but dead serious. For detective novel lovers this is a grip-your-seat, page-turner of a must read.
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- Librería
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- L2027
- Título
- Snapshot
- Autor
- Linda Barnes (1949- ) inscribed
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0385306121
- ISBN 13
- 9780385306126
- Editorial
- Delacorte Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1993
- Páginas
- 325 pages
- Tamaño
- Royal octavo
- Palabras clave
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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