Random Death by Egan, Lesley - 1982

Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Library Discard, The first page was cut-out and the cutter pressed too hard and almost completely cut through the next two pages, including the title page. There are two library stamps, one on the title page and the other on the inside back cover. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. Pages are rough cut on middle page ends. The re is a list of all the books she has written as Lesley Egan, Dell Shannon, Elizabeth Linington, and Egan O'Neill, this is other page that was accidentally cut through. ; The Varallo / Riordan Series; Ex-Library; Vol. 11; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 182 pages; Delia Riordan was depressed, there was no denying that. And it wasn't just the rainy California winter, either, although the gray, sodden city of Glendale wasn't exactly at its best. Nor was it entirely the prospect of a long grind in what sometimes seemed an awfully sordid little job only occasionally relieved . By danger. It was all of those things, but it was something else as well that blackened Delia's spirits: the sheer, senseless volume of crime that seemed just then to be overwhelming them all, police and citizens alike. There was Rosalie King, a waitress turned-hooker, beaten to death by her pimp. Sad, but all too routine, thought Delia. The girl was only nineteen. There was the pitiful corpse of an eleven-year-old girl, huddled under a soaked blanket where she'd been murdered with a shotgun fired from a passing car. There was another waitress, Alice Bailey, gunned down at work at the Magnolia Cafe by an unknown assailant. There were the vandalism at the Bible Presbyterian Church, and the schoolyard drug ring . The worst of it, thought Delia morosely, is that it's sure to get worse before it gets better. The 11th book as published. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .