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Murder in Foggy Bottom
by Truman, Margaret
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375500693
- ISBN 13
- 9780375500695
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
Item Price
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About This Item
NY: Random House, 2000. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 314 pgs. Soft Black boards w/silver foil letters on spine. Book design by Victoria Wong. DJ design #13998 by Daniel Rembert. Author photo Clifton Daniel. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. In Margaret Truman's latest mystery, the scene opens with an obscure death in Washington's Foggy Bottom, home of the State Department, shifts to mass murder in the downing of aircraft, and then moves on to mayhem in the streets of the new Moscow. Leaving an airport near New York, a D.C.-bound commuter plane falls to earth. At almost the same time, another crash occurs. And then... Firmly ruling out coincidence, investigators seek means and motive. The means are soon apparent: small-scale weaponry with large-scale impact. Their country of origin? A place where nearly everything--hardware, information, love--can be found for a price. Max Pauling, a State Department investigator, seasoned, good-looking, and hard to fool, quickly takes off on a trail still as warm as the smoking w... Source: Publisher.
Synopsis
Margaret Truman has won faithful readers with her works of biography and fiction, particularly her ongoing series of Capital Crimes mysteries. Her novels let us into the corridors of power and privilege, poverty and pageantry, in the nation’s capital. She lives in Manhattan.
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Details
- Seller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 15234
- Title
- Murder in Foggy Bottom
- Author
- Truman, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BCE/BOMC
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375500693
- ISBN 13
- 9780375500695
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2000
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