Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin - 1994

New York - Otto Penzler Books, 1994 Book. NEAR FINE in a N. Hardcover. First edition.. The first USedition of Rankin's second Inspector Rebus novel, which is much less common than the UK first edition. First printing. Detective Inspector John Rebus finds the body of an overdosed drug addict in an Edinburgh squat, laid out cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, with a five-pointed star painted on the wall above. Some of his colleagues are inclined to categorise it as the routine death of a junkie, but Rebus is perturbed by some unusual facts of the case: a full package of heroin in the dead man's room, and some mysterious bruises on his face and body. Rebus takes seriously a death which looks more like a murder every day, and he begins to investigate the true circumstances of the death. Condition: In a cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, aside from some marks to the boards. Dustwrapper is smart, with just a couple of marks and some slight edgewear (including one small closed tear). Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Overall: NEAR FINE in a NEAR FINE dustwrapper..