Like a hole in the head
First editions
Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
Booksellers and bookselling
Los angeles (calif.), fiction
California, fiction
Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
Young women
Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
New York Times reviewed
Fiction
Jill, a part-time bookseller and full-time wise-ass, buys a first edition Jack London from a slippery-looking dwarf. The dwarf returns soon after with a polite assassin who wants the book back. Unfortunately Jill has already unloaded it for a nice profit, to a fomer child actor turned book dealer tu…
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