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Synopsis
It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why, before the police do.
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About the Author
Lawrence Block is the recipient of a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a New York Times bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series and dozens of short stories and articles. He has won multiple Edgar and Shamus awards, two Falcon Awards from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, the Nero and Philip Marlowe Awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of America, and many others. Aside from being a mystery writer, he has also written a number of episodes for television, including two episodes of the ESPN series Tilt; he also cowrote the screenplay for the film My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones. Block currently lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.
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"Block's fiction is tense and energetic. His stories unfold smoothly and elegantly, with plenty of detail and rich characterization."-Houston Chronicle
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After the First Death
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Robert Hale, London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0709177143
ISBN 13: 9780709177142
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Published by
Robert Hale, London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0709177143
ISBN 13: 9780709177142
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Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
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Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Extremely rare first UK edition of a novel first published by MacMillan in the US in 1969. Ex-library copy which has had the title page removed. Slight bumping to top corners. Library bar code label to front free endpaper. No stamps or library markings on any other pages apart from a very faint stamp to the page edges. The pages are otherwise clean, unmarked and not worn like most ex-library books. The jacket has a small torn patch on the surface of the spine near the base where a label has been removed, a one inch closed tear in the bottom corner of the rear flap, another one inch closed tear in the edge of the rear flap, some fading to the red lettering on the spine and light edge wear. First printing. Seller Inventory # 009885
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