WHEN THE THRILL IS GONE (Leonid McGill)
by Mosley, Walter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594487812
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487811
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.: Riverhead , 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard, even for Leonid McGill. Lately, he is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his personal life grows ever more complicated: his favorite stepson, Twill, drops out of school for mysteriously lucrative pursuits; his best friend, Gordo, has been diagnosed with cancer and is living on his couch; his wife has taken a new lover, and seems to be endangering the McGill family; and his girlfriend, Aura, is back in his life but intent on some serious conversations. So how can McGill say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she says, who escaped from poverty via a marriage to a rich art collector who keeps her on a stipend. But she tells McGill that she fears for her life, and that she needs his help to make sure she doesn't meet the fate of her husband's first two wives. McGill knows better than to believe every word a potential client says, but this isn't a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that-if his family's misadventures don't kill him first-sorting out the truth in her story will propel him to confront some surprising, even shocking, truths.As he did in his first two Leonid McGill mysteries, the bestselling THE LONG FALLl and KNOWN TO EVIL, Walter Mosley creates the vivid and engrossing world of a New York where motives are always suspect and nothing is as it seems. Author is the winner of the 2016 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected diust jacket. M80
Synopsis
Leonid McGill can't say no to the beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash and a story. She's married to a rich art collector. Now she fears for her life. Leonid knows better than to believe her, but he can't afford to turn her away, even if he knows this woman's tale will bring him straight to death's door.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021924
- Title
- WHEN THE THRILL IS GONE (Leonid McGill)
- Author
- Mosley, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1594487812
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487811
- Publisher
- Riverhead
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 368
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Product_type
- 2
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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