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Lethal Legacy
by Fairstein, Linda
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1607515334
- ISBN 13
- 9781607515333
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday, 2009. LARGE PRINT EDITION. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. Hard cover in fine condition with black boards and silver gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition. 644 numbered pages. . * From the jacket, ""The search for answers takes Alex [Axexandra Cooper, New York ADA] and her team on a breathtaking chase into the secret tunnels and chambers of the New York Public Library, on a trail of clues that will keep you guessing until the final pages. . . ."" * NOTE from the Publisher: This LARGE PRINT EDITION, prepared especially for Doubleday Large Print Home Library, contains the complete, unabridged text of the original Publisher's Edition.
Synopsis
In Linda Fairstein's outstanding new novel, the New York Public Library houses dazzling treasures--and deadly secrets.When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with investigators. Then another woman is found murdered in that same apartment with an extremely valuable book, believed to have been stolen. As Alex pursues the murderer, she is drawn into the strange and privileged world of the Hunt family, major benefactors of the New York Public Library and passionate rare book collectors.Eventually Alex connects their internal family rivalries to a priceless edition of Alice in Wonderland, which also contains the world's oldest map. Would one of the well-bred Hunts be willing to kill for the treasures? The search for the answer takes Alex and her team on a breathtaking chase from Manhattan's grandest apartments to the secret tunnels and chambers of the New York Public Library, and finally to a nineteenth-century underground vault. There, in the pitch-black darkness, Alex comes face-to-face with the killer who values money more than life.Featuring a cast of elite, erudite, and downright eccentric characters, and a complex trail of clues that will have you guessing until the final pages, Lethal Legacy is Linda Fairstein's most beguiling thriller yet.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000822
- Title
- Lethal Legacy
- Author
- Fairstein, Linda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- LARGE PRINT EDITION
- ISBN 10
- 1607515334
- ISBN 13
- 9781607515333
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- LARGE PRINT, Fiction, New York Public Library - Fiction, Alexandra - Fictitious character - Fiction, Public prosecutors - Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Large Print;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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