ED O'CONNOR - The Yeare's Midnight. A Physchological Thriller

London England, Constable, 2002. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1841194263 Signed by Author Hardback Hardback. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. An international sports star is found murdered - her face mutilated in a bizarre, riualistic manner. What is the significance of the poetic text the killer has left at the crime scene? Why did he surgically remove the victim's left eye? And can a Cambridge lecturer help the police reconstruct the killer's fanatasy in time to save her own life? As Inspector John Underwood and his team work frantically to piece together the last hours of Olympic athlete Lucy Harrington, events take an unexpected turn. Harrington's murderer contacts English Literature teacher Heather Stussmann and invites her to explain his actions to the police. But another muder will take place before Stussmann finds the key to understanding the killer's terrifying motive, which lies buried in the works of a poet who has been dead for nearly four hundred years..292 pp.