Amadoro by Vincent McConnor - 1989-04

279 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Journalist Ashton Hendrie, hero of O'Connor's latest thriller (after I Am Vidocq ), receives a standing ovation when he gets to the office of Metropole Magazine , honoring his profile of psychic Sandra Saunders. The subject of his next assignment is Lyli Amadoro, nee Leola Martin, deemed the world's most beautiful woman, who heads a multinational company and is vastly rich and equally reclusive. She refuses to allow Hendrie to interview her but he begins to dig journalistic dirt anyway, aided by Saunders and a fellow psychic, among others who knew plain Leola Martin. Hendrie checks rumors of the accidental deaths of Lyli's three husbands and of her two children, kept out of sight and possibly mistreated. There are plenty of frights and crises in the mystery of a person like ``the strange woman'' warned against in the Bible, before Hendrie finishes his… Read More

NY: Tor, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Freelance journalist tries to get story on wealthy woman. Some rubbing of the gold print on spine of book, still clear and bright.. First printing.

Tor Books, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. An as new book in a fine dust jacket. First Edition. Nice!

NY: Tor Books. NF. 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Soi ling to the edges of the book's upper page block and toning to the pag e margins. .

N.Y.: Tor, 1989. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges beginnig to brown else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Journalist Ashton Hendrie, hero of O'Connor's latest thriller (after I Am Vidocq ), receives a standing ovation when he gets to the office of Metropole Magazine , honoring his profile of psychic Sandra Saunders. The subject of his next assignment is Lyli Amadoro, nee Leola Martin, deemed the world's most beautiful woman, who heads a multinational company and is vastly rich and equally reclusive. She refuses to allow Hendrie to interview her but he begins to dig journalistic dirt anyway, aided by Saunders and a fellow psychic, among others who knew plain Leola Martin. Hendrie checks rumors of the accidental deaths of Lyli's three husbands and of her two children, kept out of sight and possibly mistreated. There are plenty of frights and crises in the mystery of a person like "the strange… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.