Body Language SIGNED FIRST EDITION FINE
Body Language SIGNED FIRST EDITION FINE
by Hall, James W
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. AS NEW/Fine. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 336. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Kirkus notes: "Key West chronicler Hall gives rugged adventurer Dick Thorn (Red Sky at Night, 1997, etc.) a well-earned rest as the author heads north to Miami to follow the fortunes of a police photographer, a lethal serial rapist, and two very large bags full of money. As the technician charged with photographing the Bloody Rapists victims, Alexandra Rafferty would have her hands full with one way or the other. Though the Rapist has obligingly left buckets of his blood and dozens of his fingerprints at each of five crime scenes so far, the cops have no leads, and it looks like the Rapist would be providing Alexandra steady work even if she didnt have troubles closer to home. But her life with armored-car driver husband Stan and with Lawton Collins, the ex-cop father who years ago covered up Alexandras own killing of Darnel Flint, the teenaged rapist next door, is about to take a steep downward turn. Smarty-pants Stan, who thinks hes as cunning as can be, masterminds a $2 million heist from his own armored car. When Alexandra finds the money in the guest-room closet of his empty-headed, giddily amoral lover and confronts him, Stan threatens to tell the police about her own murder, casually revealed to him just a few weeks ago by Lawton, an Alzheimers sufferer. Meantime, a couple of operators toting more guns than scruples have decided to cut themselves in on Stans caper, and theyre following the money trail right to Alexandra and Lawton. The cast of felons and wannabes provides a field day for Halls well-known eye for grotesques (check out especially Lawtons blackly comic ramblings, presented with affection and respect but without blinkers, and the remorseless thief who keeps a pet roach named Amy), but the novelist never gets so distracted by all the murderous monkeyshines that he loses track of the Bloody Rapist, four counties back but closing fast. A double-barreled actioner set apart from the pack by Halls virtuoso control of tone, which can shift you from giggles to gasps with a single well-trimmed phrase."
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- Title
- Body Language SIGNED FIRST EDITION FINE
- Author
- Hall, James W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Mystery
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