Last Chants: A Willa Jansson Mystery
by Lia Matera (1952- )
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684810859
- ISBN 13
- 9780684810850
- Seller
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About This Item
255 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2' x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine over purple boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. San Francisco lawyer Willa Jansson is back in this accomplished, compelling (Publishers Weekly) fifth entry in the series by Edgar-nominated author Lia Matera. When Willa Jansson inexplicably spots an old family friend, eccentric mythologist Professor Arthur Kenna, seemingly holding a stranger at gunpoint in downtown San Francisco, she has no choice but to take action, snaring the elderly professor and spiriting him away to a cabin in the mountains to hide him from the police until she can get to the bottom of the situation. Arthur, it seems, stands accused of the murder of his assistant, a shaman who was participating in an unusual computer experiment just before he was gruesomely disemboweled at the legendary magnetic power spot at Bowl Rock. As Willa and her PI friend Edward Hershey desperately search the crime scene for clues that will clear the professor s name, they encounter a series of characters as wild and strange and potentially deadly as the woods itself. Condition: Fine in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS005019
- Title
- Last Chants: A Willa Jansson Mystery
- Author
- Lia Matera (1952- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0684810859
- ISBN 13
- 9780684810850
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster 1996 New York
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- MYSTERY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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