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by BARNES, Linda
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
[New York]: Delacorte Press, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 325pp. Very good/very good. Mild bit of jacket edgewear. Tight, clean, quite nice first edition of the fifth Carlotta Carlyle mystery, set in Boston. Signed and inscribed boldly by the author in black ballpoint on the title page: "5/21/93 / With best regards / from Carlotta & me -- / Linda / Barnes.
Reviews
On Sep 6 2007, Hazelwood_Booksellers said:
Like the male P.I.'s of the Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane era before her, Linda Barnes stays true to the hard-boiled detective personification, but takes the "male" out of a male dominated genre, replacing them with a female in grand, classic style. And like her counterparts of yesteryear, Barnes heroine, Carlotta Carlyle, is rough and savvy, but with a heart-of-gold and an underlying compassion. In this mystery thriller she's digging for answers of a child's death, helping her little sister from the Big Sister Organization find a father she's never known, shaking up one of Boston's most prestigious hospitals, and healing some old wounds of her own; while she combats a deadly conspiracy of the forces of hypocrisy and corruption in the big city. Barnes creates a character in Carlyle of wit and gravity, tough and beautiful, flippant but dead serious. For detective novel lovers this is a grip-your-seat, page-turner of a must read.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28359
- Title
- Snapshot
- Author
- BARNES, Linda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- 1993
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