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DEATH IN THE OFF-SEASON: A Merry Folger Mystery **DEBUT NOVEL**
by Mathews, Francine
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688134432
- ISBN 13
- 9780688134433
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1994. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges show very light soiling, small previous owner's name at fep else fine in fine dust jacket. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK finds mystery in cranberry bogs of Nantucket. "Labor Day weekend on Nantucket Island can be murder. Just ask Detective Meredith Folger, who wants to know why somebody would've killed newly returned Rusty Mason--who took off for Brazil ten years ago one jump ahead of a sealed indictment--and why he would've risked his freedom to come back in the first place. The deeper she digs, though, the more dirt she finds. The resourceful Rusty was blackmailing his kid brother Peter, off-islanders Schuyler Tate-Jackson (Peter's lawyer) and Mayling Stern (Sky's dress-designer girlfriend), and whoever else was implicated in his own mysterious crime back in 1982, just before his father narrowly survived a takeover bid for the family business and then succumbed to a fatal heart attack. And since Merry has problems with her own family business--she's a third-generation cop whose father, the island's chief of police, doesn't want her to handle the case--she can understand how family passions might have boiled over, even before she knows exactly which passions they are..." -- Kirkus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.
Synopsis
Francine Mathews has worked as a journalist and as an intelligence analyst for the CIA. Under the name Stephanie Barron, she is the author of the bestselling Jane Austen nine-book mystery series, including Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor and Jane and the Man of the Cloth . She also has written acclaimed standalone novels, including the thriller The Alibi Club , which was selected as one of Publisher Weekly’ s best novels of the year and, most recently, A Flaw in the Blood . She lives in Evergreen, Colorado. Bantam will publish her next historical mystery, The White Garden , in fall of 2009.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012235
- Title
- DEATH IN THE OFF-SEASON: A Merry Folger Mystery **DEBUT NOVEL**
- Author
- Mathews, Francine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688134432
- ISBN 13
- 9780688134433
- Publisher
- Morrow/Avon
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- FOLGER MERRY FICTITIOUS CHARACTER FICTION MASSACHUSETTS POLICEWOMEN MYSTERY DETECTIVE POLICE PROCEDURAL NANTUCKET ISLAND MASS WOMEN SLEUTHS
- Bookseller catalogs
- FIRST BOOK; MASSACHUSETTS; Cape Cod; Nantucket;
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