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DEAD MEAT.
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DEAD MEAT. Uk,8vo hb+dw/dj,1st edn. - 1991

by BARNES, TREVOR:

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork (non-credited] illustrated upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-256pp [paginated] includes 26 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title and dedication.Author's 2nd novel,and featuring the heroine Detective Superintendent Blanche Hampton,after her acclaimed debut in 'A Midsummer Killing'. Trevor Barnes has written a new novel as original and compelling as his first.When the pathologist rolls the corpse over there is a shudder of horror.The body of the government minister's daughter is obscenely mutilated.Detective Superintendent Blanche Hampton knows she must find the psychopath urgently before he strikes again.All the evidence points to the dead woman's former lover being the crazed murderer and Blanche quickly arrests him.On the other side of London,David Parker is a successful lawyer but a social failure.Distrubed by the death of his mother,and estranged from his fiancee,he strangles a woman and then cuts the flesh from her body.He is the psychopath.Soon voices inside David's head order him to find another woman,to strangle and mutilate another victim. Blanche Hampton's desperate search for this mad killer turns into a personal nightmare for the brainy but vulnerable detective. 'dead meat' is compulsive reading,and confirms Trevor Barnes as a major new talent in the field of mystery and suspense. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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  • Title DEAD MEAT.
  • Author BARNES, TREVOR:
  • Binding UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
  • Edition UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
  • Condition Used - FINE.
  • Pages 320
  • Publisher LONDON.NEL,1991., London
  • Date 1991
  • Bookseller's Inventory # rja31258
  • ISBN 9780450529290

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