Three Days for Emeralds by Eberhart, Mignon Good - 1988

New York: Random House, Incorporated. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree stated 1st Ed; not written-in, underlined, reprint/club, remainder or ex-library. Fine maroon 1/2 cloth over pink debossed boards; intact rubbed VG DJ. Mail SAMEDAY! ; 256 pages; Publishers Weekly: This is Eberhart's 59th novel of romance and suspense, appearing 50 years after her first, and the familiar elements are all in place. Innocent young Lacy Wales lives with her stepmother in the house on New York's elegant Gramercy Park left to her by her father. Because money is tight, Lacy has taken a secretarial job with a Wall Street law firm, where she receives a letter from an old boarding-school friend whom she has not seen in many years. Lacy visits the friend, finding her disheveled, terrified and, after taking a salutory drink with Lacy, dead. Before Lacy learns who killed her friend, she will have cause to doubt her own mysterious fiance whose picture she finds in the friend's bedroom, her handsome young boss, her stepmother and that woman's two Latin American half-brothers, whose sudden appearance .