Author: Cornwell, Patricia Daniels [b. 1956]
Title: POSTMORTEM
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the Author on the t.p. Black cloth spine over red paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. 293, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Nr Fine (board upper tips slightly bumped) / Nr Fine Cornwell graduated from Davidson in 1979 with a B.A. in English. In 1979, Cornwell began working as a reporter for The Charlotte Observer. Cornwell began work on her first novel in 1984, and wrote 3 novels that were rejected before the publication in 1990, of the first installment of her Scarpetta series, Postmortem, based on real-life stranglings in Richmond in the summer of 1987. This novel won her various awards including the British John Creasey Award, the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure and the American Edgar Award. [Wiki].

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