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SANCTUARY
by Kellerman, Faye
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in near-fine jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0688046126
- ISBN 13
- 9780688046125
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1994. Near fine in near-fine jacket.. Signed first edition, first printing of this Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Mystery, a thriller of the diamond trade set in Los Angeles, New York, and Tel Aviv. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original quarter black cloth, black paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($22.00) black pictorial dust jacket with embossed lettering designed by Robert Aulicino with illustrations by Keith Batcheller. Black endpapers. 396 pages. Signed by Kellerman on title page. Boards with light bumping, jacket with faint rubbing to embossed letters: a solid, clean copy.
Synopsis
A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Las Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found murdered in Manhatten, catapulting Decker and his wife, Rina, into a heartstopping maze of murder and intrigue that spans the globe...only to touch down dangerously in their own backyard.A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Los Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found murdered in manhattan, catapulting Decker and his wife, Rina, into a hearstopping maze of murder and intrigue that spans the globe... .only to touch down dangerously in their own backyard.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44783
- Title
- SANCTUARY
- Author
- Kellerman, Faye
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in near-fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688046126
- ISBN 13
- 9780688046125
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,Woman Author,Mystery,Thriller
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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