Playing With Fire (Signed and Lined Canadian First Edition, First Printing)

Robinson, Peter

ISBN 10: 0771076061 / ISBN 13: 9780771076060

Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ON, 2004

About this Item

A Fine, Canadian, FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING. Peter Robinson has signed this copy on the title page and written with his signature, "We have come full circle." The book is fine in all aspects. A very fine collectible copy.

Seller Inventory # 001192

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playing With Fire (Signed and Lined Canadian First Edition, First Printing)
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ON
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771076061
• ISBN 13: 9780771076060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

When the bodies of two squatters are found in the burning remains of a couple of derelict barges, Inspector Alan Banks has to wonder whether one of their occupations caused their deaths. One victim was a local artist, with plenty of turpentine and oil paint at hand; the other was a young woman, a junkie, who evidently shot up her final fix just before the fire started. But if the fire was an accident, why did her boyfriend bolt from the scene when the police arrived? And why did the neighbour who discovered the fire not call it in right away?

As they start their investigation, Banks and his colleague (and former lover), DI Annie Cabbot, find more than enough motives for murder – and more than one person with a reason to kill. Worse, one of the two detectives themselves discovers firsthand the seductive thrill and terrible danger of playing with fire.

In his fourteenth Inspector Banks mystery, Peter Robinson once more displays his extraordinary skill in creating memorable characters, a haunting narrative, and a subtly unveiled plot, a talent that has made him one of the best writers of crime fiction in the world today.

About the Author

Peter Robinson is the author of the Inspector Banks novels, including Strange Affair, which was chosen as one the best books of 2005 by the Globe and Mail, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and January Magazine, and of two non-series suspense novels, Caedmon’s Song and No Cure for Love. Strange Affair has also been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award for best crime fiction novel. He has also published a collection of short stories called Not Safe After Dark. His novels have been translated into over sixteen languages, and he has won a number of international awards, including the MWA Edgar, the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Martin Beck Award, from Sweden, the Danish Palle Rosenkrantz Award, and the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He has also won five Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards.