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    The Black Marble

    A Novel

    Author Joseph Wambaugh
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    Paperback
    $23.00 US
    Bantam Dell | Dell
    5.5"W x 8.5"H x 1"D   | 19 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Dec 21, 1998 | 416 Pages | 9780440613961
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    He is a damned good cop—a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner—twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.

    Praise for The Black Marble
     
    “[Joseph] Wambaugh sidesteps all the clichés.”—Baltimore Sun
     
    “Superb . . . his best book!”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    “First-rate . . . fast, colorful, and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.”—Cosmopolitan
    Joseph Wambaugh is the hard-hitting bestselling writer who conveys the passionate immediacy of a special world. He was a police officer with the LAPD for 14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels. Over the course of his career, Wambaugh has been the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, all written in his gritty, distinctive noir-ish style. He's won multiple Edgar Awards, and several of his books have been made into feature films and TV movies. He lives in California with his wife. View titles by Joseph Wambaugh

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    He is a damned good cop—a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner—twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.

    Praise for The Black Marble
     
    “[Joseph] Wambaugh sidesteps all the clichés.”—Baltimore Sun
     
    “Superb . . . his best book!”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    “First-rate . . . fast, colorful, and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.”—Cosmopolitan

    Author

    Joseph Wambaugh is the hard-hitting bestselling writer who conveys the passionate immediacy of a special world. He was a police officer with the LAPD for 14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels. Over the course of his career, Wambaugh has been the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, all written in his gritty, distinctive noir-ish style. He's won multiple Edgar Awards, and several of his books have been made into feature films and TV movies. He lives in California with his wife. View titles by Joseph Wambaugh

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