A Very Proper Death

Jannette Turner Hospital writing as Alex Juniper

ISBN 10: 0394221370 / ISBN 13: 9780394221373

Published by Random House Toronto, 1990

About this Item

First edition first printing of an as new hardcover in an as new dustjacket. Featuring Marni Verstak who is receiving disturbing phone messages about her secret past. When one call threatens her 5 year old son she enlists the help of policeman Jake Murphy to help her catch a cunning killer. This copy is signed by the author on the ffep as Alex Juniper and under her own name as well.

Seller Inventory # 1378

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Very Proper Death
• Publisher: Random House Toronto
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394221370
• ISBN 13: 9780394221373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

First Canadian Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

From Kirkus Reviews

Boston realtor Marni Verstak's terror begins with a 2 a.m. phone call suavely threatening the life of Matthew, the son she's been hiding with her Vermont friends Eva and Steve for five years from her estranged husband, Anderson Thorpe III, and his omnipotent mother. The next day the foreman on a restoration project of Marni's is killed by bogus muggers; when another call sends her running up to Vermont, she finds Eva and Steve gone with Matthew, their own sudden flight to her place cut short by a collision that's left Steve dead and Eva in a coma. When sympathetic Sgt. Jake Murphy identifies Steve as a prominent drug courier, Marni thinks the mystery can't get any more tangled or threatening, but she's wrong: a last dinner with her ex- husband will lead to even scarier revelations--and Marni's arrest for murder--before she and Jake finally figure out who's out to get her, and why. The multiple villains--Marni's paranoia turns out to be all too justified--are as improbable as the child whose existence can't be revealed to his father. But the pseudonymous Juniper's first mystery- -despite its unlikely premises--sweeps you up with a kind of nightmare logic. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.