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Jack Stryker #3

by Paula Gosling

Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to pages) Hardcover first edition - Little Brown,, (2002). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to pages) . First printing. The third novel in her award-winning series featuring Detroit homicide detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker, who is faced with two seemingly unrelated murders. Although born in Detroit, Gosling has lived in the UK since the 1960s, and her books are sometimes based in the US and sometimes in the UK. 263 pp.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Paula Gosling is a US born crime writer. She has lived in the UK since the 1960s. Gosling started her writing career as a copy-writer and published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and she has also received both the Gold Dagger for Monkey Puzzle in 1985. She is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association.

Her novel A Running Duck, written in 1974 (also published as Fair Game), has been adapted twice into films, once as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle - Cobra and the second time as a film with Cindy Crawford entitled Fair Game.

Reviews

[JenniferB]

Not her best but still well written. Based on goings on a university research department