First edition - First Printing. Presents as Unread. $15.95 price inside front flap. Normal, and slight, issue w/top of pageblock - printer problem?? Else Fine. Debut book - Winner of Macavity Award - Best First Novel. Also, selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century. Mylar protected DJ. Bookseller Invt # C00100649J.

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Title

The Ritual Bath: A Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)

Publisher

Arbor House Pub Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0877957711

ISBN 13

9780877957713

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition/First Printing

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Synopsis

A report of rape in a Los Angeles yeshiva brings police detective Peter Decker into an insular Orthodox Jewish community but the strict religious practices and customs of the community prevent him from following his standard investigative procedures

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enal...[The Ritual Bath] combines likable characters, a superb mystery plot, and valid insights into Jewish life."
MURDER INK
The quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered when a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform their cleansing ritual. Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD has never heard anything like it. And although most of the community refuses to talk to him, Rina Lazarus, the only witness, does, steering him through the maze of confusing religious laws that thwart his investigation at every turn. As the trail grows cold, Decker's only getting closer to Rina and not to the rapist--or is he? Maybe Rina wa the intended victim all along. And the rapist may not stop with rape the next time...

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