Lullaby Town (First Edition, inscribed)

Robert Crais

ISBN 10: 0553081977 / ISBN 13: 9780553081978

Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1992

About this Item

First Edition. INSCRIBED on the title page: "For Frances / Elvis [and] Joe say thanks [and] so do I / All best / Robert Crais." The third Elvis Cole mystery. Offsetting on the endpapers, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 168934

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lullaby Town (First Edition, inscribed)
• Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553081977
• ISBN 13: 9780553081978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery and Crime

About this title

Synopsis

Hired to locate the missing wife of Hollywood's most famous director, L.A.-based sleuth Elvis Cole, along with his partner, finds out that his missing person may also be a dead person. By the author of The Monkey's Raincoat. 12,500 first printing.

Reviews

Lullaby Town is Chelam, Connecticut, where L.A. shamus Elvis Cole (The Monkey's Raincoat, 1987--not reviewed) goes in search of Karen Shipley, divorced ten years earlier by boyish filmmaker Peter Alan Nelsen, who's since developed deep pockets (courtesy of a string of action hits beginning with Chainsaw) and a conscience of sorts. Just when it looks like Elvis has found Karen and her son, Toby, all too easily, Karen turns out to be laundering money for the Mafia, and the story takes off like a two-stage rocket. It'll take all of Elvis's wise-guy savvy to pry Karen loose from those other wise-guys without condemning her to the witness-protection program or the East River. Elvis is as sharp as a West Coast Spenser, but without Spenser's nasty/noble attitudinizing--and this story is pure pleasure from the very first page. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.