TRADE-OFF: A Deliliah West Mystery **SIGNED COPY**

NY: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st edition, June 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Light wear at edges, a few early pages wrinkled at top else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, lightly rubbed at folds, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by author at title page. A P.I. Delilah West title. "Delilah West is a spunky California PI who calls for, and sustains, comparison to Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone. Hired by a wealthy Orange County lighting manufacturer to find his runaway teenage daughter, Delilah smells something putrid coming from the house next door. It's the battered remains of a woman, not the daughter, but a friend and neighbor who was also more than friendly with the missing girl's deadbeat boyfriend, who's also AWOL. The murder and the missing persons don't come together until Delilah, fired by her first employer and deciding to work for the murdered woman's husband, finds herself targeted by a truck in an isolated parking lot. Her discovery that drugs may link those missing and murdered also raises a prime crop of grungy young suspects. At the same time, Delilah works hard to resist the advances of a handsome local land developer and friend of her deceased husband..." -- PW . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.