Vanishing Smile (SIGNED): Shamus Award-Winning Author
by Earl Emerson
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0345384865
- ISBN 13
- 9780345384867
- Seller
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
SIGNED by the author on the title page
"Earl Emerson, author of The Portland Laugher and other novels featuring Seattle private eye Thomas Black, has been hailed by Aaron Elkins as "a writer's writer--a master of witty dialogue; clever, complex plotting; and lucid, meaty prose in the best tradition of American crime fiction." Now, in The Vanishing Smile, a fateful, fatal encounter on a rain-swept highway throws Black into a deadly investigation.
Marian Wright is an amateur sleuth in the employ of two attractive young women eager to catch up with their no-account ex-lovers. Spry and seventyish, Marian has all the resourcefulness of a professional gumshoe, and the relentlessness of a woman with a score of her own to settle. When Marian's investigation ends abruptly and ferociously--with Thomas Black and his estranged friend Kathy Birchfield as eyewitnesses--Thomas has a new case on his hands.
Picking up the pieces of Marian Wright's search for her clients' rogue boyfriends, Thomas encounters a network of people--from ex-cons to prostitutes to other private investigators--all webbed together by a chilling common thread. It's a discovery that speaks volumes about the zealousness of Marian's manhunt, and even suggests a monstrous reason for her sudden death.
Equally monstrous is an unknown, baseball-wielding assailant who seems hell-bent to ensure that the investigation stays closed. But Black doesn't need a head-bashing to grasp the violent, virulent implications behind Marian Wright's death. And readers don't need to look further than The Vanishing Smile for the red-hot action and white-knuckle suspense that have become Earl Emerson's trademarks." - bookfinder
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nostalgic Books & Elements (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23vanishing1995
- Title
- Vanishing Smile (SIGNED)
- Author
- Earl Emerson
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0345384865
- ISBN 13
- 9780345384867
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995-09-26
- Keywords
- fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED Books For Collectors; Fiction;
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Nostalgic Books & Elements
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Nostalgic Books & Elements
About Nostalgic Books & Elements
NB&E, prides itself on rescuing unique and nostalgic books that sometimes include an element. I provide detailed descriptions, multiple photographs, and wrap most dust jacket in a protective sleeve.
Books are noted as either SIGNED or INSCRIBED accordingly. If the book is a remainder or ex-library it is noted. I seldom, if ever, sell these types of books. I CHERISH books and want to provide you with the books you will be proud to own.
With gratitude,
Janice Dawson
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