LEFT IN THE CARE OF. by Kung, Dinah - (1997)

N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1997. 1st edition so stated. Fine in unclipped dust jacket. Hong Kong with the territory's last colonial Christmas before Britian hands control to China. Claire Raymond, an American foreign correspondent and new mother becomes involved with the murder of an English boy and the disappearance of another child from her apartment building. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Caroll & Graff Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 260 pages. The author's debut novel of suspense set in Hong Kong, about a mother's worst fear. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box..

New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not a n Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. An accessible aura of intimacy with the lives of ordinary foreigners caught up in the Hong Kong changeover gives this first mystery by a journalist who spent many years there a definite edge. Dinah Kung captures the large by focussing on the small: her story mixes the fears of a new mother about her baby and her relationship with its father with the exotic politics and practices of a city in turmoil. Claire Raymond, anxious to get back to her job as a writer for an American business magazine, is looking for a nurse to mind her 6-week-old son, Caspar. Suddenly, her comfortable apartment enclave is shattered by the mysterious death of one little boy and the kidnapping of another. With the help of a Scottish priest, Claire starts an investigation of… Read More

Carroll & Graf Pub, 1997-12. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0786704942 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket; This is the story of a young girl who is left in the care of a group of strangers. She has to find her way in a new place and make new friends.; 8vo .