A Choice of Crimes (Vic Varallo Mystery #10)

Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x 8.5" 180 pgs. Soft mustard boards w/black letters on spine. DJ #5380 designed by Lawrence Ratzkin. Autor photo by Marjorie Bennett. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Gloria Carson was a pretty girl even with a black eye and a swollen jaw. She was flat in the hospital bed with the sheet drawn up tight, and she looked pale and sorry for herself. At the sight of the badges she looked frightened. — "We'd just like to hear what you can tell us about this, Miss Carson. Who did this to you?" — "I d-don't know," she said in a thin voice. "It was a strange man,I never saw him before. Well, I didn't see him at all because it was dark. It was the middle of the night. I was in bed, and I don't know how he got in, I suppose he jimmied the door or something I woke up, I guess I heard a noise, and he was there a burglar. A burglar. And I was too scared to scream, but I made a noise and he and he kept hitting me and I guess I passed out. When I came to he was gone but I was hurting so bad I couldn't move I don't know any more to tell you, that's all." She turned her face away and shut her eyes. Publisher.