Condition: FINE. First printing. The author's fourth novel featuring detective Sam Turner, a twice-married, former alcoholic and Dylan fan, and his unlikely sidekicks, set mostly in York, and issued as a trade paperback original. Baker has been hired by an insurance claims investigator to do a final investigation into the death of a woman, supposedly kidnapped but who was left to starve to death despite the fact that her wealthy husband had paid the ransom. SIGNED on the title page. 285 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.