Deviant Behavior - Hardcover

Emerson, Earl W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688083358 ISBN 13: 9780688083359

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1988

Synopsis

Detective Thomas Black searches for a teenage boy who is both a genius and a star athlete and who, it is feared, has disappeared into the tawdry section of Seattle's Chinatown

About this title

From the Publisher:

Earl Emerson's acclaimed series about Seattle private investigator Thomas Black is much beloved by readers and critics. And with justification. (These novels, running the gamut from THE RAINY CITY to the just-issued CATFISH CAF, are among my all-time favorite detective tales, and I'm not just saying that because I'm Earl's editor.) But I don't know any other crime novelist who amasses such fervent praise from his peers. It would be a crime to call Earl Emerson merely a "writer's writer." But there sure are a lot of talented authors who revere him. To wit . . .

Aaron Elkins: "In every book he tries something new, and he always comes up a winner. In the best tradition of American crime fiction, Emerson is a master of witty dialogue; clever, complex plotting; and lucid, meaty prose."

Robert Crais: "Earl Emerson writes with the richness and grace of a poet, evincing a quality of phrase and nuance that elevates the genre."

Ann Rule: "Earl Emerson and Thomas Black only get better and better! Earl Emerson has taken his place in the rarefied air of the best of the best!"

'Nuff said.

--Joe Blades, Associate Publisher

From the Inside Flap:

en-year-old Todd Steeb has been missing for eight days, his wealthy parents hire Thomas Black to investigate. Faith Steeb is worried by her son's obsession with suicide, though her husband dismisses it as youthful "deviance." Aided by his lawyer friend Kathy Birchfield, Black finds forgotten crime, buried treasure, possible murder, and enough "deviant" behavior to blow Seattle off the map.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0688083358
• ISBN 13: 9780688083359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225