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Q is for Quarry
by Grafton, Sue
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399149155
- ISBN 13
- 9780399149153
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Fine. First Edition, first printing, SIGNED by author in clean unclipped dust jacket. Gray boards with silver "Q' on cover, dark gray cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. Binding is tight, hinges are sound - no cracking. Very slight lean to text block. Clean orange endpapers - no previous owner markings. Signed "Sue Grafton" on blank fly leaf. 387 Pages, with one page of illustration at end of book (forensic reconstruction of "Jane Doe" from police records. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, has publisher's "signed copy" circular sticker on front panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
Synopsis
Quarry , n. An open excavation. Quarry , v. Transitive: To dig or take from. Intransitive: To delve into. Quarry , n. An object pursued or hunted; prey. She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case. Old and ill, they need someone to help with their legwork and they turn to Kinsey Millhone. They will, they tell her, find closure if they can just identify the victim. Kinsey is intrigued and agrees to the job. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026896
- Title
- Q is for Quarry
- Author
- Grafton, Sue
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0399149155
- ISBN 13
- 9780399149153
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, KINSEY MILHONE SERIES, SUE GRAFTON, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Q
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Crime;
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- Price Clipped
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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