Finishing Touch

New York: Walker and Company, 1991. BH5 - A first American edition hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. A Melissa Craig Mystery. 8.5"x5.75", 253 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Melissa Craig is a successful crime novelist who has left London to pursue her career in the more relaxed atmosphere of the Cots-worlds. It doesn't take her long to discover that fact and fiction are sometimes frighteningly similar, and the gentle country existence she planned for herself is, instead, providing grist for her creative mill. Finishing Touch finds Melissa getting more involved with the local community and teaching creative writing at the local Tech, something one would think would keep her out of trouble. But murder stalks the college art department, reminding both Melissa and iris, her artist neighbor, a bizarre event they had witnessed some time before.. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.