
THE HURRICANE CREEK MASSACRE
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Dell, New York, September 1979, 1st pr. ISBN 0-440-14230-X. MMPB, 271 pages. Wraps have some edge and cover wear, age toning and a bit of soil, corner bends, reading creases on spine; some waviness to wraps near front and rear spine; binding sound with a slight lean. Interior clean anPerennial, New York, 1972, believe 1st pr thus. ISBN 0-06-080251-0. MMPB, 145 pages including Coal Mine Safety Comments and Acknowledgments. Wraps show some edge and cover wear, faint reading crease along front spine edge; light upper front corner bend, light lower rear corner bend; age toning on rear wrap; a bit of waviness to book and curl to upper front; binding sound, remainder mark on top edge. Prior owner’s name and 1B inked on verso of front wrap; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages. ‘It was the worst mining disaster in eastern Kentucky history, and the thirty-sixth major American mine disaster in the past two decades – and it happened one year to the day after the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 was signed into law.’ (from Introduction)d unmarked with browned pages (not brittle). ‘Who is she? A deranged mental patient released too soon? A woman whose passion for revenge can only be answered in butchery and blood? Her letter proclaimed a reign of terror to equal Jack the Ripper’s bloody spree. Men would die, but Kelly would be saved – for last. Kelly Cohen, a brilliant young psychiatrist, successful in his work, happy in his family. Who could want him dead? But as Kelly is swept up in the desperate race to stop the slaughter, as he is drawn ever deeper into terrifying new realms of madness and death, he will hunt and be hunted….’ (from rear wrap)