- Detective and mystery stories, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, United States
Here is an intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life.When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is reluctant to take the…
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Nelson DeMille
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Random House Audio, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- Chinese, German, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781306755467
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Nelson DeMille was the author of twenty-four novels, seven of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. His novels include ***The Maze***, ***The Cuban Affair***, ***Word of Honor***, ***Plum Island***, ***The Charm School***, ***The Gold Coast***, and ***The General's Daughter***, which was made into a major motion picture starring John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe. With his son <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL8177507A" target="_blank">Alex DeMille</a>, he cowrote ***The Deserter***, ***Blood Lines***, and ***The Tin Men***. Nelson DeMille was a combat-decorated U.S. Army veteran; a member of Mensa, Poets & Writers, and the Authors Guild; and a past president of the Mystery Write
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