"The Silkworm" by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling) 1st/1st HC/DJ 2014

Description: "The Silkworm" was written by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling) and published by Little, Brown & Co. in New York in 2014. This is a hardcover, first edition, first printing of this compulsively readable 455-page crime novel by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The original price, as shown on the dustjacket front flap, was $28.00. From the dustjacket blurb: “When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. “But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel is published, it will ruin lives—so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. “And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before . . .” And from the reviews: “Why is ‘likable’ the first word that comes to mind upon finishing ‘The Silkworm’? Surely, that has something to do with Rowling’s palpable pleasure in her newly chosen genre (the jig may be up with her Robert Galbraith pseudonym, but the bloom is still on her homicidal rose) and even more to do with her detective hero, who, at the risk of offending, is the second husband of every author’s dreams.”—Louis Bayard, The Washington Post “Robert Galbraith . . . has written a second absorbing whodunit starring detective Cormoran Strike to follow last year’s stealth hit, ‘The Cuckoo's Calling’ . . . Astutely observed, well-paced . . . ‘The Silkworm’ thoroughly engages as a crime novel.”—Sue Corbett, People “The last line of ‘The Silkworm’, which will lift the hearts of readers who have come to love its deeply sympathetic characters, offers the prospect of more of that joy both for her and for us.”—Charles Finch, USA Today “Cormoran Strike is back, and so is his resourceful sidekick, Robin Ellacott, a gumshoe team that’s on its way to becoming as celebrated for its mystery-solving skills as Nick and Nora Charles of ‘Thin Man’ fame, and Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander (a.k.a. the girl with the dragon tattoo).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe book is in fine, collectible condition, with no torn or bent pages, no scratches, stains or inscriptions, no remainder marks, no price-clipping, no bookplate, no ex-library, no book club edition, no flaws of any sort. It is as new. The dustjacket is in equally fine shape and is protected in a clear and removable archival cover. Please see the photos for a fuller description and author profile.BLK BOX 112 PLEASE SEE THE OTHER TITLES NOW LISTED IN MY EBAY STORE: DISTANT VOYAGE BOOKS PAYPAL PREFERRED Will combine shipping. All items are well packed and are normally mailed within two days of payment being received. My 100% feedback rating is valuable to me. If you are satisfied with a transaction, please leave feedback and I will do the same. Questions welcome. Additional photographs on request.Note: Scrolling through my listings will locate books in these and many other categories:Animals; Art & Architecture; Biography; Children’s; Collecting & Collectibles; Entertainment, Film & Theater; Fiction; Food & Drink; Gardening; History; Military; Music; Natural History; Nautical; Photography; Science & Technology; Travel; Space; Sports; Transportation. New Listings added almost daily.

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