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CHIEFS
by WOODS, STUART
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- first
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [1981]., 1981. First edition. First edition. Fine, bright, square copy in a flawless price-clipped dust jacket. Edgar Award Winner for Best First Novel of 1981. The novel takes place in the fictional town of Delano, Georgia, over three generations, as three different police chiefs attempt to identify a serial killer operating in the area. It is Woods' first published novel. As the author explains in a note, it was inspired by the story of his grandfather's death while serving as a police chief. An exceptional copy and a read we highly recommend.
Synopsis
Stuart Woods' Edgar(r) Award-winning novel spans fifty years of racial tension, politics, and murder in the small Southern town of Delano, Georgia, where a depraved killer claims his innocent victims even as three very different generations of policemen seek to stop him. For the people of Delano, Georgia, 1920 was a landmark year. That winter they elected their first police chief, built the first jail. . .and discovered the first body -- the naked, brutalized corpse o a young boy. So began a forty-year manhunt that would embroil three generations of small-town police chiefs in the dark, twisted secrets of their sleepy, God-fearing community -- and expose a seamy underbelly of hatred, corruption, and perversion too terrible to imagine. . .and too virulent to ignore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45668
- Title
- CHIEFS
- Author
- WOODS, STUART
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, [1981].
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
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