Grand Central Publishing, 1995. Hard Cover Hardcover. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. • Binding: Hard Cover • Revision: Book Club Edition • 1995 • Clean tight pages. Tight square binding. Dust jacket has light edgewear. •

Synopsis

It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Romance, a would-be hit play about an actress pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. But isn't it romantic! Before the show can open, the leading lady is really attacked, outside the theater. And before the detectives of the 87th can solve that crime, the same actress is stabbed again. This time for keeps. A.D.A. Nellie Brand moves in for a murder conviction, but Detective Steve Carella is sure she's got the wrong guy, and wrestles for the case with Fat Ollie Weeks, Isola's foulest cop. While Bert Kling interviews witnesses and suspects ranging from the show's producers to the author - who has written novels about cops and knows how it's done - to the lead's lovely understudy, he can't keep his mind off what's happening to him. He's falling in love. With a doctor. Who happens to be a deputy chief surgeon. Who happens to be a black woman. In the city of Isola, nothing is black and white. In the play Romance, no one is guilty or innocent. And in the gritty reality of the 87th Precinct, everyone is in love with something - even if it's only murder.

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Seller: Squirreled Away Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 10063458
Title: Romance : A Novel Of The 87th Precinct
Author: McBain, Ed
Format/Binding: Hard Cover Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0446518042
ISBN 13: 9780446518048
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1995
Keywords: MYSTERY

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.