New York: Mysterious Press, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the Title page. Signature only Former Library Book. Stamps black marked out, boards and half title page. First edition, First printing. Book is in Very Good condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a small amount of reading wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Tiny bit of edge wear, tiny bit of crinkle. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well packaged, All-Ways fast service..

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A frozen body is found on top of Vermont's tallest mountain in the middle of winter. Lost hiker or foul play? Hard to tell until the marble-hard body is thawed out. A hand and a foot have been broken off, as if from a great fall, and the body's clothing looks oddly old-fashioned. An autopsy reveals an ice-pick wound to the heart, a Canadian driver's license dating back to just after World War Two, and the fact that the body's been dead and frozen for over fifty years. The corpse is that of Jean Deschamps, an old-time smuggler from Sherbrooke, Quebec, who made a fortune during the war as an industrialist. His son Michel has run the crime-family business since his father's disappearance. Both Hell's Angels and the Montreal-based Rock Machine are interested in taking over the Deschamps turf. Was the evidence suggesting that Michel killed his own father planted by those two factions? Indications are that Jean believed his older son, Antoine, had been murdered in the Italian campaign during the war, and not killed in combat as reported. And there are rumors a priceless marble mask by Michelangelo also vanished around the same time, never to be seen again, and that one of Antoine's fellow combatants is now a wealthy recluse in Stowe. Joe and his new Vermont Bureau of Investigation team, including Sam and Willy, set out to solve these riddles amid an increasingly dangerous political landscape involving cops and crooks on both sides of the border.

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Bookseller: All-Ways Fiction (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 038666
Title: The Marble Mask: *Signed*
Author: Mayor, Archer
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good +
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0892967234
ISBN 13: 9780892967230
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: JS

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