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THE PENNY FERRY
by Boyer, Rick
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395352886
- ISBN 13
- 9780395352885
- Seller
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1984.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in good, lightly rubbed, black pictorial dj. First printing. 254 pp.The first case is history. That's the famous trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, Boston's pair of immigrant anarchists executed for a murder many still say they never committed. The second case makes history -- at least for Doc Adams. John Robinson, Doc's handsome, generous friend, has been found dead, his body curiously unmarked. And two of the killer's fingers are discovered lodged in the jaws of Robinson's similarly dispatched guard dog. Between the seemingly unrelated cases, generations apart, lies a critical and hazardous link that will introduce Doc to the best-kept scandals of Boston's first families and to the Mafia strongholds of the colorful North End.
Reviews
On Jun 30 2010, Killswan said:
Perhaps 90 % of everything I know about the Sacco-Vanzetti murder trials that lasted from 1920 until 1927 I learned from Rick Boyer's 1984, reissued 1990 detective thriller THE PENNY FERRY. Dental surgeon Doctor Charles Adams ("Doc") makes his second of nine appearances as an easily bored man. crimes and mysteries are a sure fire way to waken him from his daily slumber. ***** And in THE PENNY FERRY Doc, wife Mary and her brother, Lieutenant of Police Joseph Brinelli get swept up in a scheme involving Sacco and Vanzetti and evidence that will either clear them or prove them murderers. Is it the Mafia on the trail of a mysterious photograph that will give Sacco his alibi? Or is it a 92 year old WASP who masterminded the anarchists' guilty verdict and execution? ***** The hints and clues are fairly presented. The red herrings are indeed deceptive, but with care you can tell them from the real thing. ***** Doc Adams would not be Doc if he didn't find himself on the receiving end of kicks, blows, frights and general mayhem. Half thriller, half puzzle to be unraveled, THE PENNY FERRY is a memorable yarn for a rainy day. -OOO-
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58724
- Title
- THE PENNY FERRY
- Author
- Boyer, Rick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0395352886
- ISBN 13
- 9780395352885
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1984.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 1984
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