1980, ISBN: 0684171538

Winner of Britain’s John Creasey Award for Best First Novel of 1980 Anna quit the London police force because it was a dead end for women, but her job with Brierly Security isn’t a whole… More...

Winner of Britain’s John Creasey Award for Best First Novel of 1980 Anna quit the London police force because it was a dead end for women, but her job with Brierly Security isn’t a whole lot livelier. Her boss doesn’t much approve of female investigators, and her assignments tend toward the frustratingly genteel. The Jackson case doesn’t look like a big improvement. Ambitious, unpleasant young Deirdre Jackson has died, the apparent victim of a car accident on a lonely stretch of highway, and her parents want to know what their black-sheep daughter was up to in her last few months. Anna’s job, she knows, is to ask a few questions, write a report, and collect the Jacksons’ check. But the more questions she asks about Dee’s life, the more questions arise about her death. Answering them could land Anna in the hospital . . . or the morgue. But it could also be her ticket out of the pink-collar ghetto. literature and fiction,mystery,mystery thriller and suspense,women sleuths Mystery, Simon & Schuster<

1981, ISBN: 0684171538

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780684171531], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York], FIRST MYSTERY AWARD WHODUNIT REVIEW COPY BRITISH ENGLISH U.K., Jacket, First American edition of author'… More...

[EAN: 9780684171531], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York], FIRST MYSTERY AWARD WHODUNIT REVIEW COPY BRITISH ENGLISH U.K., Jacket, First American edition of author's first novel, winner of the John Creasey Award for the best first mystery novel published in England during 1980. Number line complete. This is an advance review copy of the first edition, appears unread. Still laid in are the 5-1/2 X 8-1/2-inch letterhead press release, and a smaller Scribner's letterhead request that the reviewer send "two copies of your review." Page edges slightly foxed. DJ shows some age toning to rear panel and edges and a closed half-inch tear near top corner of front DJ panel, now protected in Brodart cover. Not price clipped -- original $10.95 price showing. Reduced from $40.<

1980, ISBN: 0684171538

The 1980 John Creasy Award winner. Private detective Anna Lee investigates the car crash which killed Deirdre Jackson. She uncovers motives and murder as she probes the unsavoury world of… More...

The 1980 John Creasy Award winner. Private detective Anna Lee investigates the car crash which killed Deirdre Jackson. She uncovers motives and murder as she probes the unsavoury world of the London film industry where Deirdre sought glamour, but found duplicity and death. literature and fiction,mystery,mystery thriller and suspense,women sleuths Mystery, Scribner<

1981, ISBN: 9780684171531

NY: Scribners, 1981. Book is ever so slightly slanted. Obverse of d.w. flaps show glue remnants. Endpapers professionally restored. Date to top (date of publication?) edge of pages. S… More...

NY: Scribners, 1981. Book is ever so slightly slanted. Obverse of d.w. flaps show glue remnants. Endpapers professionally restored. Date to top (date of publication?) edge of pages. Still, a clean copy of the scarce first U.S. edition of the author's first book that introduces one Anna Lee as a P.I.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+., Scribners, 1981<