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GRAFTON**, SUE: : "G" is for Gumshoe. [Author SIGNED copy.]

US.NEW YORK,NY.HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY,INC.,1990.

ISBN 0805004610.

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[Stated First Edition.Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,bu author's handwritten,distinctive,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,colour photographic illustrated front panel and spine of dw/dj with black,brown and capitalised white lettered author's name,colour lettering repeated to spine/backstrip,rear panel with author's b/w sitting portrait; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no major tears or splits present - a tiny closed tear at front,top corner's tip but no other nicks,tears or splits present. Inevitable but minimal and superficial scoring/ indents to both dw/dj panels - but no penetration to boards beneath.Top edges are with minimal,light and sporadic dust-flecking; fore-edges lightly age with light,faint thumbing(?) and minimal sporadic other blemishes; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – very tiny,tiny top corner tips' folds to title page and the following dedication page - else near pristine,possibly unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,plain pale grey paper-covered boards with black cloth blind-spine with bright,crisp, blocked metallic red lettering to spine/ backstrip,and to rear board's lower edge near the foot of blind-spine,a publisher colophon, similarly in bright,crisp,blocked,metallic red,a black+red chequered headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED - without dedication,1st edn,1-261pp [paginated] includes 27 chapters and an Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title,list of author's previous titles,author SIGNED title page,a dedication with blank verso,and author's thanks also with blank verso. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional copy. It's the fifth of May and Kinsey is celebrating her 33rd birthday.One of her presents is a call from a fellow detective warning her that she's made the hit list of Tyrone Patty (a killer she helped track down) and suggesting she hire a bodyguard.But Kinsey has better things to do with her money.Instead,she takes on her next case - tracking down her new client's eccentric mother who is missing from her trailer home on the edge of the Mojave Desert.But before she can get very far in the case,Kinsey is run off the road by a red pickup truck,wrecking her '68 Volkswagen and landing herself in the hospital. Maybe a bodyguard is a good idea after all... Enter Robert Dietz,a burnt-out detective,"late forties,five ten,maybe 170,[who arrives in] jeans,cowboy boots,a tweed sport coat with a blue toothbrush protruding from the breast pocket like a ballpoint pen." Sue Taylor Grafton (b. 24th April,1940 – d. 28th December, 2017) was an American author of detective novels,best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. Grafton had said that the alphabetical series would end with "Z" is for Zero,but she died before she could write it.Her daughter said Grafton would never allow a ghostwriter to write in her name and "as far as we in the family are concerned,the alphabet now ends at Y." Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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