From Potter's Field
by Patricia Cornwell
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684195984
- ISBN 13
- 9780684195988
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner, 1995. SIGNED. 1st/1st. First edition, first printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Patricia Cornwell on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($24.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Christmas has never been a particularly good time for Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, the festivities always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI.
The body was naked, female, and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work.
Synopsis
In From Potter's Field , #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta—and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Brooks Gault. She soon realizes that Gault's murders are but a violent chain leading up to one ultimate kill—Scarpetta herself.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2466
- Title
- From Potter's Field
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684195984
- ISBN 13
- 9780684195988
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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- First Editions; Signed Books;
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