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A SUPERIOR DEATH
by Barr, Nevada
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Mint/Near Mint
- ISBN 10
- 0399139168
- ISBN 13
- 9780399139161
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Near Mint/Near Mint. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, green cloth over forest green boards, Mylar-protected dust jacket illustrated by Honi Werner, 303 pages. Signed in ink by the Author neatly on the title page. Second in the Anna Pigeon, Park Ranger, mystery series. Signed in ink by the Author neatly on the title page. Sixth in the Anna Pigeon, Park Ranger, mystery series. Nevada Barr created the Anna Pigeon series while working at a seasonal job in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. Her first permanent Park Ranger job was on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. after the success of her park mysteries, the author resigned her post to pursue writing fulltime. Anna Pigeon is a fictional Natioinal park ranger and detective in the series of novels by the same name. She shares some life experiences with the author such as working as a national park ranger and having had a husband who worked in the theater in New York City. The books in the series are set in various national parks, where Pigeon solves murders that are often related to natural resource issues.
Synopsis
Park ranger Anna Pigeon returns, in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose chilling depths sunken treasure comes with a deadly price. In her latest mystery, Nevada Barr sends Ranger Pigeon to a new post amid the cold, deserted, and isolated beauty of Isle Royale National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan known for fantastic deep-water dives of wrecked sailing vessels. Leaving behind memories of the Texas high desert and the environmental scam she helped uncover, Anna is adjusting to the cool damp of Lake Superior and the spirits and lore of the northern Midwest. But when a routine application for a diving permit reveals a grisly underwater murder, Anna finds herself 260 feet below the forbidding surface of the lake, searching for the connection between a drowned man and an age-old cargo ship. Written with a naturalist's feel for the wilderness and a keen understanding of characters who thrive in extreme conditions, A Superior Death is a passionate, atmospheric page-turner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 687
- Title
- A SUPERIOR DEATH
- Author
- Barr, Nevada
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Mint
- Jacket Condition
- Near Mint
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399139168
- ISBN 13
- 9780399139161
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Great Lakes, Superior, treasure, ships, Isle Royale National Prk, wolves, moose, scuba diving,
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Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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