Corcoran takes his series to new levels with the ingeniously plotted "Octopus Alibi, " set in Key West as the characters learn that bad news comes in threes.
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Corcoran takes his series to new levels with the ingeniously plotted "Octopus Alibi, " set in Key West as the characters learn that bad news comes in threes.
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Add this copy of Octopus Alibi to cart. $10.37, good condition, Sold by Goodwill of Greater Milwaukee rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milwaukee, WI, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Minotaur Books.
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Book is considered to be in good or better condition. The actual cover image may not match the stock photo. Hard cover books may show signs of wear on the spine cover or dust jacket. Paperback book may show signs of wear on spine or cover as well as having a slight bend curve or creasing to it. Book should have minimal to no writing inside and no highlighting. Pages should be free of tears or creasing. Stickers should not be present on cover or elsewhere and any CD or DVD expected with the book is included. Book is not a former library copy.
Add this copy of Octopus Alibi to cart. $14.00, like new condition, Sold by Garys Books-Log Cabin Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Apache Junction, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Minotaur Books.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Author(s) 0312291272 First Print. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. NOT inscribed, clipped or otherwise marked. Dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box.
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Add this copy of Octopus Alibi: An Alex Rutledge Mystery to cart. $32.00, like new condition, Sold by carl clark rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Naples, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Minotaur Books.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Alex Rutledge Mysteries, NO. 4. Audience: General/trade. pristine copy of the authors fourth book. signed on the title page, stated first edition, read once, from my personal library, no blemishes, dust jacket protected in mylar
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Add this copy of Octopus Alibi to cart. $132.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by St. Martin's Minotaur [Thomas Dunne Books].
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2003
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Bob O'Neal (Author photograph) Very good in Very good jacket. [10], 325, [1] pages. Autographed copy sticker on DJ. Sticker residue on spine of DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. Tom Corcoran is a Florida-based writer of mystery novels. He has authored three books on classic Ford Mustangs. Corcoran is friends with Jimmy Buffett and shot photographs for seven of Buffett's album covers, as well as cowrote the hits "Fins" and "Cuban Crime of Passion". Derived from a Kirkus review: Alex Rutledge, Key West's hunkiest freelance photographer, is looking longingly for a safe harbor. Just south of Cuba lies the Grand Cayman, and he thinks of his seven-day shoot there as healing for both a shattered exchequer and a battered psyche. Obstacles keep looming. First, there's the call of friendship. Alex's buddy, Sam Wheeler, faces a trip to Broward County to identify a body that might be his missing sister, and Alex can't let him go alone. Next, there's a proliferation of corpses, most of which seem connected to each other and, dismayingly, to him-like Naomi Douglas, the older woman beloved by Alex for insisting he was more talented than even he believed. She died in her sleep, they tell him, but he can't help remembering how very robust she'd seemed only days earlier. There are problems with live bodies too, like the opulent Teresa Barga. With haste, she appears on the point of vacating the Rutledge bed after a mere flash of passion. When Alex, a part-time crime photographer, is tapped to take pictures of a crime scene, he goes reluctantly, knowing that once he gets sucked into sleuthing, he can kiss off the Caymans. The Key West setting is as always a plus. In three previous novels, Tom Corcoran established himself as a shrewd observer of Key West's eccentricities and landscape. In Octopus Alibi, he delivers Alex Rutledge to labyrinths of the past, agendas of power, and greed that jumps generations. The suspected murder of a long-missing woman, the death of an elderly mentor, and the suicide of Key West's popular mayor are revealed a single April day. Rutledge, a freelance photographer with part-time forensic ties to the Monroe County Sheriff's Department and the KWPD, must accompany fishing guide and friend Sam Wheeler to identify a body in Broward County. Hours later, back on the island, a Key West detective coerces Alex into documenting Mayor Gomez's demise. Rutledge also learns he must administrate the estate of Naomi Douglas, the woman who encouraged his creative photography. Rutledge soon suspects that nothing is as it appears. The police choose not to see crimes. Only Rutledge senses foul play on the island, a linking of deaths, and the threat of more peril. Home-front troubles compound the dilemma. Teresa Barga, Alex's new housemate, is absorbed by the arrival in town of Whitney Randolph, a college friend with cash, wild stories, bent morals, and more alibis than an octopus has suckers. Randolph, it appears, has already slithered into the unfolding suspense, linking himself to scam victims and murder victims. Rutledge must ignore a relationship gone sour, then focus on wisps of clues to connect the past and present. Friends act out of character, officials become duplicitous, and threats of violence take Alex to the most dangerous confrontation of his life. Filled with edgy characters and insights to island existence, the tight plot of Octopus Alibi promises Tom Corcoran's most unforgettable tale of the hot, crazy tropics.
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Good condition. It may show normal signs of use such as light writing highlighting or library markings but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid complete copy that's ready to enjoy.
Add this copy of Octopus Alibi to cart. $11.37, like new condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Minotaur Books.
