8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Book club edition. Wraps have light overall shelf wear. 260 pp. Fiction set in a "coup-bedeviled Latin American city collapsing into chaos" (New York Times book review) and centering on Dr. Daniel Pacheco and his obsessive relationship with Señora Puccini. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1210105.jpg

Near-new condition - NO price clippings - Small remainder mark on bottom of book - Stated First Printing - Price inside dustcover: $19.00 - 207 pages - It's been years since Charlie Bradshaw traded in his badge and a steady paycheck for the hard-scrabble but independent life of a private eye, but his past is catching up with him - with a vengeance. A man he was responsible for convicting twenty years ago has been paroled from prison and seems to be out to get him, if the death threats Charlie has been receiving are any indication. As if that weren't enough, another of Charlie's old cases is proving that sometimes secrets refuse to stay buried. When the site of what used to be Jacko's Pool Hall is bulldozed to make way for the public library, the skeleton of a woman believed to have escaped to South America with embezzled funds literally comes to the surface. Although he's been off the force for ages, he feels morally obliged to solve the case. To top it all off, his irreplaceable, irrepressible girlfriend, Janey Burris, wants a commitment. With his trademark humor, Stephen Dobyns sets Charlie to deciphering the past while staying alive in the present amid what is truly a cast of "characters

Near-new condition. Price inside dustcover: $16.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Dustcover shows slight wear (NO tears) - Book is in Fine Condition. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 256 pages -

Dustcover shows minor wear (NO tears) - Book is in Fine Condition. Price inside dustcover: $15.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - bright pages. 231 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Cover art by Kent Williams

Near-new condition - Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 406 pages.

Condition: Very Good. :: Further Information: (Originally £5.99) ::

Condition: Near Fine. :: Further Information: (Originally £6.99) ::

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