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Part supernatural thriller, part noir detective story, Heinlein's trip down the rabbit hole leads where you never expected.
Jonathan Hoag has a curious problem. Every evening, he finds a mysterious reddish substance under his fingernails, with no memory of how it got there. Jonathan hires the husband-and-wife detective team of Ted and Cynthia Randall to follow him during the day and find out. But Ted and Cynthia find themselves instantly out of their depth. Jonathan leaves no fingerprints. His few memories about his profession turn out to be false. Even stranger, Ted and Cynthia's own memories of what happens during their investigation do not match. There is a thirteenth floor to Jonathan's building that does not exist, there are mysterious and threatening beings living inside mirrors, and all of reality is not what they thought it was. Part supernatural thriller, part noir detective story, Heinlein's trip down the rabbit hole leads where you never expected.
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About the Author
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-1988) was born in Missouri. He served five years in the US Navy, then attended graduate classes in mathematics and physics at UCLA, took a variety of jobs, and owned a silver mine before beginning to write science fiction in 1939. His novels have won the Hugo Award, and in 1975 he received the first Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.
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Praise for Robert A. Heinlein:
''One of the grand masters of science fiction.'' --Wall Street Journal
''The most influential science fiction writer of all time!'' --Locus
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- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0450028860
- ISBN 13 9780450028861
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Tim White (illustrator). 1976 Edition. © 1959: A collection of 6 stories by Robert A Heinlein. 1st printing of 1976 edition. Old tape to bottom 3cm of spine:- Contents: The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag / The Man Who Travelled In Elephants / - All You Zombies - / They / Our Fair City / - And He Built A Crooked House - :- Synopsis: What is the mysterious brown substance under J Hoag's fingernails that so disturbs his doctor? Can it really be the dried human blood it so closely resembles? And what does Jonathan Hoag do during the daylight hours? And what is the brutal Brotherhood of the Bird?:- Review(s): "A masterpiece of macabre writing, plus other way-out stories, from that master of science fiction, Robert Heinlein:- (original cost £0.70). Seller Inventory # 13.007.00008
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