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Fine (a new copy.) SIGNED first edition - First printing, a trade paperback original. The first novel in a series featuring the 1870 New York law firm of Pettigrew and Roth. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes. 237 pp.
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Set in 1870 New York City, this middling first in a new series from Rogow (The Problem of the Surly Servant and three other mysteries pairing Arthur Conan Doyle and Lewis Carroll) will have limited appeal to historical whodunit fans. The law firm of Pettigrew and Roth has just obtained the surprise acquittal of Bertram Delacorte, accused of stabbing Civil War widow Suzanna Kendall to death in a boardinghouse. Soon after, Delacorte's corpse, which has also been stabbed, surfaces in the Hudson River. Partner Joshua Roth, who personally represented the dead man, teams with a female law clerk, Peggy Pettigrew, and the prosecutor who was Roth's courtroom opponent, Michael Riley, to try to solve both murders. The point-of-view shifts among these three characters can be distracting, while the pages detailing the Pettigrew household's efforts to communicate with a new cook who speaks only Italian slow the narrative. Few readers will have trouble identifying the real killer. (June)
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Deadly Ink, Parsippany: New Jersey, 2009
ISBN 10: 0978744276
ISBN 13: 9780978744274
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Printed Wrapper. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof with one small crease and nick. A tale of murder, deceit, infidelity and greed unfolds set in 1870 New York. It's a time of great growth as well as widespread corruption in the city. In the first of a new series, Roberta Rogow introduces the law firm of Pettigrew and Roth, comprised of the esteemed Ephraim Pettigrew, his niece, Margaret ("Peggy") Pettigrew; and the junior member of the firm, Joshua Roth, whose best friend, Michael Riley, is an assistant district attorney and Uncle Ephraim's prize protege. The firm has been hired by one Henry Ward Long, whose family is definitely a member of the city's High Society, to defend his nephew, one Bertram "Broadway Bertie" Delacorte, against a charge of murder. Delacorte has been accused, on scant evidence, of murdering Mrs. Suzanna Kendall. Roth succeeds in having the charges dismissed and the case against him thrown out at arraignment when none other than Peggy herself provides the man with an ironclad alibi. The celebration of their victory is short-lived, however, when Delacorte's dead body is fished out of the Hudson River less than a day later. Mr. Long asks the firm, to find the killer. The unlikely trio of Peggy, Michael and Josh set out to find the killer of both Mrs. Kendall and Bertie Delacorte. Uncorrected Proof. Seller Inventory # 017886