In New Orleans, NYPD Detective Neil Hockaday and his African-American wife, Ruby Flagg, are swept up in a pungent Creole stew of family secrets, sour politics, ritual murder, and bittersweet revenge. Hock encounters a cast of only-in-New Orleans characters, including a scamming alderman, a hypnotic preacher, and a cryptic old jazz funeral man whose legendary horses weep tears when they pull hearses through the sad and gaudy streets of the Big Easy.
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In New Orleans, NYPD Detective Neil Hockaday and his African-American wife, Ruby Flagg, are swept up in a pungent Creole stew of family secrets, sour politics, ritual murder, and bittersweet revenge. Hock encounters a cast of only-in-New Orleans characters, including a scamming alderman, a hypnotic preacher, and a cryptic old jazz funeral man whose legendary horses weep tears when they pull hearses through the sad and gaudy streets of the Big Easy.
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Add this copy of Thrown Away Child (Neil Hockaday Mystery) to cart. $1.25, good condition, Sold by Richard's Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boise, ID, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Pocket.
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Good. 1ST SEPTEMBER 1997. COVER HAS SOME CREASING AND SHELF WEAR. "X" ON ISBN NUMBER ON INSIDE OF COVER. 369 PAGE TEXT HAS LIGHT WEAR. MYSTERY. 4.25'' X 7''. WE USE BUBBLE MAILERS.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; SIGNED by the author at title page. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for resale and/or who sent copies of titles, also in bulk, to authors for signing, a favor for which he paid. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. This is the Edgar Award-winning author's fifth mystery to feature the N.Y.P.D. Detective Neil Hockaday, though this mystery is set in New Orleans. Bound simply in publisher's original sea-green boards, green cloth-backed, and with sharp and distinct lettering to spine in copper. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. 340 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Fine in Fine jacket. The sixth in the author's Edgar Award-winning series of Neil Hockaday mysteries. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
