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The Professional
by Parker, Robert B
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399155945
- ISBN 13
- 9780399155949
- Seller
-
Ellensburg, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Putnam, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York: Putnam, 2009. Not clipped, no marks crease in back flap 289 pp. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing
Synopsis
A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower- and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment goes from blackmail to murder. As matters become more complicated, Spenser's longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhower's behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. It seems that not all of Gary's women are rich. So if he's not using them for blackmail, then what is his purpose? Spenser switches tactics to focus on the husbands, only to find that innocence and guilt may be two sides of the same coin. With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, The Professional is further proof that "[t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Black Dog Mystery Firsts
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006205
- Title
- The Professional
- Author
- Parker, Robert B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399155945
- ISBN 13
- 9780399155949
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- MYSTERY SPENSER BOSTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Private Investigator;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Black Dog Mystery Firsts
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Ellensburg, Washington
About Black Dog Mystery Firsts
We buy and sell primarily used first edition mystery and suspense novels. Book searches gladly.
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