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As Canadian police detective Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg investigates the disappearance of Charlie O'Brea, young drugstore worker Eddie Addison's obsession with a pretty student leads to a downward spiral of violence.
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Given a week's compassionate leave he doesn't need after his newly widowed mother briskly announces plans to get on with her own life, Sechelt (British Columbia) Mountie Karl Alberg (Fall from Grace, etc.) agrees to take the time to track down Charlie O'Brea--a vanished insurance executive who, he discovers, has been spending a year planning his escape from his marriage to his obsessively devoted wife Emma (``I was her career''). Meanwhile, down the Vancouver coast, gawky delivery boy Eddie Addison moves from awkwardly insulting Melanie Franklin to attempting an apology, and then to plotting revenge--a revenge he'll have to cover up by following Melanie's roommates up to Sechelt. The stories of grief-maddened Emma and flipped-out Eddie seem to have no connection (Alberg doesn't even know Eddie exists) until they lurch together with a final, sickening jolt. Though she doesn't share Ruth Rendell's command of narrative momentum--events here seem to swim by in agonized slow motion--Wright is fully her equal in psychological studies of compulsion, and this is one of her finest. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Wright L R : Prized Posessions
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. In this masterpiece of psychological suspense (second only, perhaps, to Ms. Wright's Edgar-winning The Suspect), the real villain is self-delusion; it inflicts more damage than even the craziest serial-killer. In the case of Emma O'Brea, the delusions concern her marriage: When her husband Charlie disappears it quickly becomes apparent that Emma was the only person in Canada who didn't recognize how desperate he had been to leave. And then there's Eddie Addison, an overgrown delivery boy, far from the sharpest knife in the drawer, and obsessed - dangerously obsessed - with a pretty young student. Eddie and Emma would seem to have little in common, but when Inspector Karl Alberg is called in to solve the riddle of Charlie's vanishing act, the two sets of disturbing delusions begin to converge, with a climax that even the canniest reader is unlikely to see coming. Seller Inventory # 00107606511
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Prized Possessions
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0670845655I3N00
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Prized Possessions
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1993
ISBN 10: 0670845655
ISBN 13: 9780670845651
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Prized Possessions
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ISBN 13: 9780670845651
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Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP96663166
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Prized Possessions
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Prized Possessions
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Remainder mark on the bottom of the book. Jacket lightly rubbed with minor edgewear. Seller Inventory # 152138
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Prized Possessions
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Seller: BEACON BOOKS, Creston, BC, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 5.5 x 8.5 inches approximately. 262 pages. Black cover with white spine and copper script. Dust jacket protected in Brodart. Signed by the author on the title page in black ink. Near fine condition. Spine slightly cocked. Signed By Author. Seller Inventory # 504387
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Prized Possessions
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Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. First Edition w/ complete numberline. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket. Book has a touch of shelfwear; DJ has a touch of shelfwear. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in. // ' Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg is back in his fifth appearance in this novel of psychological suspense. Alberg is taking some time away from the office when a neighbor asks him for help. Emma O'Brea is a devoted wife whose husband has mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind every one of his prized possessions, including his gun. As Alberg begins to investigate, he begins to feel that this marriage was not all wine and roses - and that Emma O'Brea may have other reasons for wanting her husband found. Meanwhile, across town, drugstore delivery man Eddie Addison inadvertently insults an attractive young woman who is a student at the university. Unable to forget the encounter and unable to forgive himself for upsetting the pretty woman, he becomes obsessed with the idea of making it up to her. Eddie is a simple-minded man who initially means no harm, but sometimes he reacts uncontrollably and violently to situations he doesn't understand. So when his efforts to apologize receive no response, he decides he must teach this student a lesson. Eddie soon finds himself trapped in a downward spiral of increasing violence, and eventually meets up with Emma O'Brea in a startling confrontation.' -- publisher. Seller Inventory # 623936