Author: CORNWELL, PATRICIA
Title: Black notice / Patricia Cornwell
Description: London : Little. Brown 1999. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 415 pages; Physical description. : 415p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Scarpetta. Kay (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Women pathologists - Fiction. Summary: An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond. Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked. sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner. Kay Scarpetta. initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon. where she receives critical instructions: go to the Paris morgue to receive secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career. In a story which crosses international borders. BLACK NOTICE puts Dr Kay Scarpetta directly in harm's way and places her and those she holds dear at mortal risk.ISBN: 0316646377. Weight in Kg appr.:

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