THE WHALE'S FOOTPRINTS.
by Boyer, Rick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 039542738X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395427385
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The fifth Doc Adams mystery - this one set in Woods Hole on Cape Cod.
Reviews
On Jun 11 2010, Feeney said:
The best, certainly the most evocative, thing about Rick Boyer's Doc Adams thriller, THE WHALE'S FOOTPRINTS, may be its title. When any whale sounds, the swirl left in the water, its "footprint," is unique. Whales' footprints are invoked from time to time in a thriller that sees one of Doc's two sons suspected of murdering a friend. Doc wants to know what good a clue like a whale's footprint is, that disappears. "Everything disappears, Dad, given time" (Ch. 15). And again, Doc shows his State police brother-in-law Joe "... the inverted cone of swirling brine and foam: ... The whale's footprint ... the whale's calling card he leaves when it sounds." Joe's reaction: "Some footprint, Doc, ... Now you see it, now you don't. That's what this Cunningham case reminds me of. ... Leads keep appearing and then disappearing" (Ch. 20) ***** So if you grow bored with unraveling the mystery, there is always plenty about whales, as Doc's son is spending the summer studying them off Cape Cod. -OOO-
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77515
- Title
- THE WHALE'S FOOTPRINTS.
- Author
- Boyer, Rick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039542738X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395427385
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1988.
- Keywords
- woods hole, regional mystery, cape cod mystery,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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