IMMEDIATE PROSPECT OF BEING HANGED

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1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges beginning to age tone else about fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers information sheet and publicity photo laid in. Mass. setting. One of the chief pleasures of this intelligent legal thriller is narrator Patt Starbuck, detective with the D.A.'s office. Starbuck has cheerful contempt for his politically ambitious boss, John Michael Keough, who's anxious to convict prominent golfer Wylie Carpenter of asphyxiating his blue-blooded, pill-addicted wife Rebecca in tony Woodedge, Mass. But the state police suspect the Carpenters' gardener, a young stud hired by Rebecca, while Starbuck believes his own hated distant cousin Dodge Patterson, Wylie's golf partner, was involved. The leisurely paced story keeps you guessing right through the closing courtroom drama in which Starbuck, as a witness, reopens unresolved wounds from his family past. But the trial is only a prelude to the jolting surprise ending. Walker ( Rules of the Knife Fight ) serves up fully developed characters, seedy local politics and an ironic gumshoe -- full of acerbic, hilarious comments and devastating one-liners about the suspects -- who grows on the reader." -- Publishers Weekly. N° de ref. del artículo 002900

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