New York: The Armchair Detective, 1990. Fine condition in a bright, shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket (only very slightly rubbed). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NOT price clipped ($19.95). A clean, square, tight copy -- probably never read. Sharp corners. First printing with "First Armchair Detective Library Edition" so stated, and complete number row (13542) on the copyright page. This edition features a new 4-page Introduction by the Author. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in metallic red on the spine. From the preface: "Originally published in 1971 by World, THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE was Robert Ludlum's first novel. It has been unavailable in hardcover for nearly twenty years.". First printing of Armchair Library ed. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (viii), 358pp.

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Title

The Scarlatti Inheritance, With a New Introduction by the Author

Publisher

The Armchair Detective, New York

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0922890455

ISBN 13

9780922890453

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First printing of Armchair Library ed.

Condition

Fine condition

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine dust jacket

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In a desperate attempt to prevent her own son from delivering a powerful weapon to Hitler's Germany, Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti will use her money, power, and influence to beat him

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Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The most dangerous man in the world--her son. Elizabeht Wyckman Scarlatti has a plan--a desperate, last-minute gamble--designed to save the world from her own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who is working under the name of Heinrich Kroeger: Unless she can stop him, he is about to give Hitler's Third Reich the most powerful triumph on earth.

"Great, astonishing, the most spellbinding suspense in years!"--Minneapolis Tribune.

"Has that sense of drama and pact that only the best storytellers have."--San Francisco Chronicle.

"Drive and excitement from first page to last."--Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather.

"Gripping. . .Ludlum writes with imagination and convincing authority."--Baltimore Sun

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