- Seller Inventory #: 8606
- Format: Hardcover; 1st Printing
- Book condition: F/F
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0312021828
- ISBN 13: 9780312021825
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1988
- Keywords: 0312021828, Hugo Award Author, Sci-fi, Mystery, Fantasy, Space Probes, Detectives
New York: St. Martin's Press. F/F. 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover; 1st Printing. 10, 24. 0312021828 . 1st edition/1st printing. SIGNED by author on title page, and with a 'News from St. Martin's Press' advance advertising letter laid in loosely. Fine, clean, straight and tight book with barely bruised lower corners but otherwise without fault, in a price intact, crisp, clean and unfaded dustjacket with a couple of very tiny edge nicks but no other faults. A malfunctioning alien space probe is running amok on earth leaving a path of madness, destruction and death. An arsonist is pursuing the probe leaving a trail of disastrous fires. Two detectives must discover the probe's secret and stop the killing but no one will believe their story. Written by the author of the Hugo award-winning 'Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang'. The second in the Charlie Meiklejohn - Constance Liedl mystery series.; Signed by Author .