- Detective and mystery stories, Police, Rhyme, Lincoln (Fictitious character, Lincoln Rhyme (Fictitious character)
Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually eluded the police. Rhymes —-a quadriplegic since a line-of-duty accident — must use his wits to track this brilliant killer who’s been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the last hours before their grand jury testimony.
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Earnest, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Jeffery Deaver
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 453
- Publisher
- Sonzogno, Simon & Schuster, Wheeler Pub.
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- Chinese, English, Italian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780753168080
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“When Edward Carney said good-bye to his wife, Percey, he never thought it would be the last time he'd see her.”
Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Mary Higgins Clark and Walter Mosely. - https://www.jefferydeaver.com/about/
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