The Whale's Footprints: A Doc Adams Suspense Novel
by Boyer, Rick
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 039542738X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395427385
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About This Item
First edition first printing of the fifth novel in the Doc Adams series. The rear panel of the dustjacket has a 1/4 inch line of sun fading the runs the length of the panel. Slight spine slant. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.
Reviews
On Jun 11 2010, Feeney said:
The best, certainly the most evocative, thing about Rick Boyer's Doc Adams thriller, THE WHALE'S FOOTPRINTS, may be its title. When any whale sounds, the swirl left in the water, its "footprint," is unique. Whales' footprints are invoked from time to time in a thriller that sees one of Doc's two sons suspected of murdering a friend. Doc wants to know what good a clue like a whale's footprint is, that disappears. "Everything disappears, Dad, given time" (Ch. 15). And again, Doc shows his State police brother-in-law Joe "... the inverted cone of swirling brine and foam: ... The whale's footprint ... the whale's calling card he leaves when it sounds." Joe's reaction: "Some footprint, Doc, ... Now you see it, now you don't. That's what this Cunningham case reminds me of. ... Leads keep appearing and then disappearing" (Ch. 20) ***** So if you grow bored with unraveling the mystery, there is always plenty about whales, as Doc's son is spending the summer studying them off Cape Cod. -OOO-
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- Bookseller
- Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio9487
- Title
- The Whale's Footprints: A Doc Adams Suspense Novel
- Author
- Boyer, Rick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition first printing
- ISBN 10
- 039542738X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395427385
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hard Boiled; Mystery; Detective;
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