Baldacci, David:Absolute Power
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday Crime Club, 1987. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. London..Who would dream that a cha… Meer...
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday Crime Club, 1987. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. London..Who would dream that a chance encounter on a city bus could lead an innocent young woman into a nightmare of mystery, intrigue, and even murder? But that’s exactly what happens when Cathy Carter, the artistic wife of Detective Inspector Neil Carter of Scotland Yard, boards a crowded London bus and takes a seat next to a sweet old woman named Mrs Willoughby. As the streets breeze by, the two women get to chatting and become fast friends. After Cathy breathlessly reveals the wonderful news of her first pregnancy, Mrs Willoughby, a dressmaker and clairvoyant, offers to make her a maternity wardrobe and read her future. In return, Cathy will paint the woman’s portrait. It is a friendly and seemingly innocuous arrangement until the day Cathy stops by the dressmaker’s studio for a fitting and finds that someone has made a very permanent, brutal alteration on Mrs Willoughby herself! Suddenly the young mother-to-be finds herself under suspicion for murder, and her husband, whose temper has just suspended him from the force, begins his own private investigation, and unconventional bit of sleuthing that bring startling -- and very deadly -- results.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book., Doubleday Crime Club, 1987, 5, Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2002. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Front hinge opened roughly at title page where author signed but binding remains intact, else fine in fine dust jacket. . Historical mystery set in 1811 London. "Set in Regency London, this thoughtful and thought-provoking debut offers a large cast of characters and a wealth of historical detail in a tale of murder, intrigue and the 19th-century English justice system. When a young lady well known for her work among the destitute women of Soho is found dead, presumably run over by a hansom cab, John Chase of the Bow Street Runners investigates. Chase discovers strangulation marks on Miss Tyrone, and at first, evidence points to Jeremy Wolfe, an artist whose drawings of Miss Tyrone in the guise of St. Catherine cause a sensation in the courtroom. Wolfe's wife, Penelope, joins forces with Chase and the attorneys Thorogood and Buckler to clear Wolfe and uncover the real culprit. But readers likely won't simply ask whodunit; they'll also seek answers to a number of questions the book leaves unanswered. Why, for example, does Penelope want to pursue Miss Tyrone's charitable work when such work exposes her to disease and she has a child of her own to support? What is the nature of Buckler's strange malaise? Solid research particularly into the forensic technology of the day centers the book, but the faintly sketched background characters and the dream sequences that herald the denouement fail to advance the plot and seem ill-considered in comparison. At a time when the fear of infectious disease has reentered the collective conscious with a new intensity, Rizzolo provides oddly relevant mystery fare in this talented but uneven first novel." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book., Poisoned Pen Press, 2002, 5, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1992. 1st edition, September 1992, so stated Fine in dust jacket with publicity information laid in. The 4th title in the rooster Franklin series. Set in Kansas City. "After a two-year split, the engagingly corrupt Rooster Franklin (Caught Looking, etc.) has decided he can't live without Rosalinda, and when he shows up on her Kansas City doorstep, he fully expects her to marry him. The problem? Rosalinda has already married snooty Joseph Warman--plus there's a dead body at Rosalinda's former address. Who murdered pretty Kathleen, and why? The artist was supposedly a protege of Rosalinda and Warman's, even though her work wasn't being shown at Inside Moves, their fancy gallery. Then an arsonist burns Kathleen's entire output, and Rooster is convinced Warman is behind it. Hellbent on separating Warman from Rosalinda, he pokes and pries and comes up with a steamy videotape that sets his romantic prospects even further back. Meanwhile, Rosalinda's mobster brother is tailing Rooster, and the cops are sizing him up for a jail cell. Finally, though, a million-dollar pane of stamps will end Rooster's chances of marrying--and explain the motive behind several other murders. A mean, funny spin on what happens when you talk yourself into being in love. " -- Kirkus Review. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book., Doubleday, 1992, 5, Michael Joseph. First UK edition-first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine condition.Joseph,1996.First UK edition-first printing.Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,scratch on the cover)with Dj(small crease,nick and a scratch on the edges of the Dj cover,both in fine condition.Nice and clean pages as new with light shelf wear on the outer edges, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book,small crease and nick on the edges of the pages.Price un-clipped.284pp. This is another paragraph Product Description: Artist Alexander Kinloch lives alone on a remote mountain in Scotland. But one day his peace is shattered when he returns home to find a group of strangers waiting for him. After a scuffle Alexander is left for dead, with the words Where is it? ringing in his ears., Michael Joseph, 5, N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1994. 1st US edition, October 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A GOLD DAGGER AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. Her third mystery. "Britain's Walters, whose The Sculptress won the 1993 Edgar for best novel, excels at depicting monstrously dysfunctional families and the murder and mayhem they wreak; and old Mathilda Gillespie's clan is a humdinger. The daughter of this bitter, snobbish, nasty-minded recluse is a prostitute on dope; the granddaughter's a schoolgirl being blackmailed into theft by a rapist lover. Gillespie's own past contains its share of feeblemindedness, violence, booze, abortion and incest. When the old woman is found dead in her bathtub, a peculiar medieval device over her head (the "scold's bridle" of the title), there is no shortage of suspects in her Dorset village. Both the local woman doctor, one of the few people who could tolerate the dead woman, and the cynical artist husband from whom she is separating spar with empathetic Detective Sgt. Cooper as they search for a killer..." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book., St. Martin's, 1994, 5, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books Llc, 1994. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover/trade, french flaps clipped, 108 pages, tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, no names. "The twenty-five-cent paperbacks of the late 40's and early 50's led readers on a raucous dive through America's dark & sleazy world of drugs, sex, & violince. Over My Dead Body by Leed Server, author of Danger Is My Business: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines: 1896-1953, takes us back in time to rediscover this wonderfully lurid era of American pop fiction. Complete with over 100 colorful photographs of rare covers, plus tips on how to collect vintage paperbacks, Over My dead Body is not only a great read, but also a useful resource for collectors & lovers of American pop culture." Contents include: Introduction / Shot in the Dark / Love for Sale / Cover Story / Paperback Beat / 1,000,000 Delinquents / Collecting Paperbacks / Epilogue / Bibliography / index. Check out the scans. . First Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover with French Flaps. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall30.., Chronicle Books Llc, 1994, 4, Inner Traditions, 2021. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2021 Inner Traditions softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In its Native American meaning, wetiko is an evil cannibalistic spirit that can take over people's minds, leading to selfshness, insatiable greed, and consumption as an end in itself, destructively turning our intrinsic creative genius against our own humanity. Revealing the presence of wetiko in our modern world behind every form of destruction our species is carrying out, both individual and collective, Paul Levy shows how this mind-virus is so embedded in our psyches that it is almost undetectable--and it is our blindness to it that gives wetiko its power. Yet, as Levy reveals in striking detail, by recognizing this highly contagious mind parasite, by seeing wetiko, we can break free from its hold and realize the vast creative powers of the human mind. Levy explores how artists, philosophers, and spiritual traditions across the ages have been creatively symbolizing this deadly pathogen of the psyche so as to help us see it and heal it. He examines the concept of wetiko as it appears in the teachings of the Kabbalah, Hawaiian kahuna shamanism, Buddhism, and mystical Christianity and through esoteric concepts like egregores, demons, counterfeiting spirits, and psychic vampires. He reveals how visionary thinkers such as C. G. Jung, Sri Aurobindo, Philip K. Dick, Colin Wilson, Nicolas Berdyaev, and Rene Girard each point to wetiko in their own unique and creative way. He explores how the projection of the shadow self--scapegoating --is the underlying psychological mechanism fueling wetiko and examines wetiko in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, showing that we can reframe the pandemic so as to receive the lessons and opportunities embedded in it. Revealing how the power of imagination can cure the wetiko mind-virus, Levy underscores how important it is for each of us to bring forth the creative spirit within us, which helps shed the light of consciousness on wetiko, taking away its power over us while simultaneously empowering ourselves., Inner Traditions, 2021, 6, New York: Vintage International, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. New. 354pp. Octavo [20.5]. Photographic wraps. "These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, 'black matter(s),' human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work... and that of others., Vintage International, 2019, 6, In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping a burglar behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the president of the United States.Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Alan Richmond is the charming U.S. president with the power to commit any crime. And Jack Graham is the young attorney caught between absolute truth and absolute power., Grand Central Publishing, 2015, 6<
