New York: Putnam, 1994. One of the most highly praised first mysteries in recent years - at its center is Kathleen Mallory, a wild child turned NY policewoman. While the high advance for this novel guaranteed a lot of advance publicity, this ARC is still quite a bit harder to find than the hardcover, which had a 50,000 copy 1st printing. SIGNED on the title page. 286 pp.