Deep Sleep - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by the author.; 256 pages; Physical description: 256p. 21cm. Summary: The "most psychologically assured novel to date" (The Times) by an Edgar Award nominee. Despite the warnings put forth by her friend Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey, apprentice pharmacist Helen West begins an investigation into the suspicious death of another pharmacist's wife--and uncovers a viper's nest of jealousy, rage, and lethal addictions. Genre: Crime fiction -- Thriller.