First edition, first printing. Original black cloth over red paper boards, titles in silver to the spine, in dustwrapper. A superb near fine copy, seemingly unread, the binding square and tight, the contents with a small ink stamp of the Mystery Writers Of America to the front free endpaper and evidence of a bookplate having been removed from the front pastedown. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper which is faded to the spine. Not price-clipped.
The author's first book, introducing Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
Stock code: 11833
£175
New York: Scribners.
1990