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RANKIN**, IAN: : The Falls. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

LONDON.ORION,2001.

ISBN 075282130X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt b/w photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj, with white+blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges very lightly aged with a light grub/mark,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread.Publisher's bright,generally clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED, 1st edn,1-399pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters and an afterword; plus [unpaginated] critics' reviews,author SIGNED title page,a dedication, prose extract (Philip Kerr,'The Unnatural History Museum'.) and 8pp blanks at rear. A student has gone missing in Edinburgh . . . She's not just any student,but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another rebel,high on Daddy's money and more.Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a six inch coffin abandoned at a rural beauty spot and an Internet role-playing game run by a mysterious cyber guru.The ancient and the modern,brought together by uncomfortable circumstances and a curmudgeonly detective happier with long playing vinyl than MP3s. Putting together a misfit team from the Lothian & Borders finest,Rebus takes the unpromising historical material and runs with it,leaving DC Siobahn Clarke to take her chances with the virtual Quizmaster.She's young enough to know how to navigate the net,but is she old enough and wise enough to pick up the clues in such a complex case? Rebus takes his eye off the ball,intrigued as to how his clue relates to sixteen similar coffins found on an Edinburgh hillside in 1836. Will he react in time? Or see more coffins filled in a game where lives,real and virtual, depend on split second timing? 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 US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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