Gatekeeper (Inscribed First Edition)

New York: The Mysterious Press, 2003. First edition, first printing, with full number line. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to the prior owner on the title page, dated November 2013. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($23.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 296 pages. The fourteenth novel in the Joe Gunther mystery-crime series. Set in Brattleboro, Vermont. GATEKEEPER follows Gunther as he battles the rising tide of drugs, violence, and corruption in his home state. Archer Mayor (born 1950) is an American novelist, historian, and death investigator for the Vermont Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. GATEKEEPER is the fourteenth entry in his acclaimed Joe Gunther series, which began with OPEN SEASON (1988) and includes THE SURROGATE THIEF (2004) and CHAT (2007).