First edition. Near fine with a remainder mark and spotting on the top page edge in a fine dust jacket.

First edition. Near fine with a remainder mark and spotting on the top page edge in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover, 263pp. Nicely INSCRIBED and signed by Ellroy on the front

Hardcover, 263pp. Nicely INSCRIBED and signed by Ellroy on the front endpaper. A fine tight copy in a very good dust jacket (some edge wear including some rubbing and a crease at the bottom of the front panel). Protected in a mylar cover.

0892960698. Signed by Ellroy, "To Jay---slashout--L.A. style...James Ellroy."

0892960698. Signed by Ellroy, "To Jay---slashout--L.A. style...James Ellroy." Red cloth stamped in gilt along the spine. Moderate rubbing to the dust jacket. An LAPD Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins novel. An early appearance of the "slashout" inscription, which Ellroy would customarily use only for his L. A. Quartet novels.; 263 pages; Signed by Author.

Size: 8x5x1; In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Size: 8x5x1; In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York. 1984. Mysterious Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket.

New York. 1984. Mysterious Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0892960698. 263 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Gamache. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery America Los Angeles. DESCRIPTION-Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins loves his work, his family, women, and innocence. Preternaturally brilliant and with an extraordinary instinct for police work, Hopkins moves through the Los Angeles night world saving souls, while faced with the constant threat of losing his own. Someone else is stalking the city now-someone who can match Hopkins point for point in brilliance. But Teddy Verplanck has turned his mind to evil: he protects the innocent by murdering them. So successful has he been that in twenty years not one of his victims has been connected to another. Most are deemed suicides. Drawn inexorably together, Hopkins and Verplanck challenge each other in a confrontation which pits icy intelligence against white-heated madness and lays bare the souls of two men driven in opposite directions by the same need. Searing and shocking, as evocative of Los Angeles police work as the stories of Joseph Wambaugh and as compelling as the novels of Lawrence Sanders, Blood on the Moon is a frightening and exciting foray into the world of men driven by forces so strong they take over every life they touch. inventory #24349.

0892960698. First edition. Fine in close to fine dust jacket. (Couple tiny specks of rubbing to jacket. ) FIRST Lloyd Hopkins novel.

0892960698. First edition. Fine in close to fine dust jacket. (Couple tiny specks of rubbing to jacket. ) FIRST Lloyd Hopkins novel.