A Talent for Destruction de Sheila Radley - 1982-09

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. 1st U.S. edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The skull is buried in the snow. Little Justin and Adrian think at first that it's a football -- but footballs don't have eyeless, noseless sockets and grinning teeth. Detective Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill is the first policeman on the scene. He finds the skeleton of what appears to be a young man dressed in jeans. He could have been a derelict who died of drugs, he could have fallen down an embankment from a nearby highway -- or it could be murder. But who is he? Nobody has been reported missing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684176637 . A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition in a dust-jacket that is also Fine; In this gripping novel, thirteen-year-old Norah is sent to live with her father in New York City after her mother's death. Norah is an artist, but she's not content to just paint - she wants to create. So when her father gets a job in a bank, Norah is ecstatic. She'll finally have the opportunity to create the art she's always wanted to. But when Norah's father is killed in a robbery, Norah is forced to take on the role of breadwinner. With no time for art, Norah finds herself drawn to the dangerous world of crime. With the help of her new friend, a streetwise teenage boy, Norah starts to piece together the clues to her father's death. But can she stop the killer before he kills again?; 8vo; 160 pages .