Near Fine Hardcover London: Collins Crime Club, 1988. The fifth Glasgow P Division mystery. Just a couple of light spots of foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Opens readily to the title page, where it has been signed "Peter Turnbull, Moneray, 1-11-97." Jacket has a tiny chip to the lower front flap fold, price clipped, in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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This deftly written procedural realistically captures the life of modern Glasgow and the men who keep law and order there. A young cop on the beat finds a body laid out, with the head hacked off and neatly left on the chest of the torso. No clues to the victim's identity are available, but several peculiar aspects of the crime cause the detectives of Glasgow's P Division to conclude that some sort of ritual murder has occurred. For one thing, the victim was washed and dressed in new clothes after death and moved to the spot where he was found. Dogged police work reveals that the dead man is Samuel Lurinski, an accountant with a blameless past. The investigation into why and how he was killed leads Detective-Inspector Donoghue and his men to a fashionable nightspot and its rather unsavory owner, a woman dying of AIDS, the city's Chinese community, and a series of arson cases dating back over several years. The ending takes a satisfyingly unusual turn. Turnbull ( The Claws of the Gryphon ) writes realistically and without sentiment about his cops, interesting the reader in their lives without glamorizing them. In the well-filled ranks of procedurals this is a superior specimen.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Ffep has writing. Still great condition. DJ has surface rubbing, edgewear, and several edge tears. Binding slightly tilted. DJ taped to book. Dj has proctective plast cover. Body of text appears unmarked. Crisp clean pages. Tight binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Seller Inventory # 890796
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. PC Phil Hamilton and Glasgow's P Division are on the job when a corpse is found with its severed head placed neatly on its chest. Lightly bumped with a bit of foxing to the edges of the text block. Jacket rubbed with wear at the extremeties, in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # D150093
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The fifth Glasgow P Division mystery. Just a couple of light spots of foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Opens readily to the title page, where it has been signed "Peter Turnbull, Moneray, 1-11-97." Jacket has a tiny chip to the lower front flap fold, price clipped, in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # D140396
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