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Lethal legacy : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

Lethal legacy : a novel / by Linda Fairstein.

Summary:

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.-- from the publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385523998
  • ISBN: 9780385523998 (hc)
  • ISBN: 9780307387783 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 372 p. ; map ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Series name from cover.
Target Audience Note:
All Ages.
Subject: New York Public Library > Fiction.
Fiction
Mystery > Suspense
Cooper, Alexandra (Fictitious character)
Fiction > Suspense
Legal
Map collections
Public prosecutors
Fiction > Espionage > Thriller
Women Sleuths
Suspense
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.

Available copies

  • 9 of 9 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Mackenzie Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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Mackenzie Public Library FAI (Text) 35192000073647 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -


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