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P is for Peril
by Grafton, Sue (signed)
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0399147195
- ISBN 13
- 9780399147197
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. SIGNED directly on the first blank page by Sue Grafton with her characteristic black sharpie (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). A gorgeous copy of the first printing. Gift quality. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. Perfect condition. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($26.95). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are creamy white, fresh, crisp and unmarked. 2001. First printing, with complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. Bound in the original dark gray boards with a black cloth spine stamped in shiny silver. From the dust jacket: "Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Teresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed contented with his life… He adored his second wife, Crystal, and doted on their two-year-old son. It wasn't Crystal who called Kinsey. It was Purcell's ex-wife, Fiona. Everything about their meeting made Kinsey uneasy… [S]he soon finds herself in a dangerous shadow land, where duplicity and double-dealing are the reality and, with the truth glinting elusively out of reach, she must stake her life on a thin thread of intuition.". Signed by the Author (her signature only). First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by Tafuri, Thomas (jacket design). 8vo. (xii), 352pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Synopsis
She's every lover's feisty girlfriend. She's every father's courageous daughter. She's every woman's tough, vulnerable, and spirited alter ego. She's Kinsey Millhone, familiar to millions of readers around the globe, and she's back in full stride in P is for Peril, her latest venture into the darker side of the human soul. Mordant, mocking, and deceptively low-key, hers is a voice we know we can trust, from a character we've come to love. Through fifteen novels, Sue Grafton has gone from strength to strength, never writing the same book twice. So it's no surprise that she has taken on new territory in her sixteenth, this time entering the world of noir. It's a world cast in shades of black amid shafts of steel and silver, a shadow land in which the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey into a danger-filled maze of duplicity and double-dealing as she taps into the intricacies of a cunning Medicare fraud. P is for Peril: the novel in which Millhone stakes her life on a thin thread of intuition because the facts glint elusively out of reach and only guesses offer any shot at the truth. "Unlike many detective series, Grafton's seems only to get better each time out," wrote Entertainment Weekly, and P is for Peril is a case in point. Pushing herself, reaching further with each new book, Sue Grafton delivers every time.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020549
- Title
- P is for Peril
- Author
- Grafton, Sue (signed)
- Illustrator
- Tafuri, Thomas (jacket design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399147195
- ISBN 13
- 9780399147197
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery / Crime Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo. (xii), 352pp
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