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First US edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Stated FIRST EDITION: August 1998. Price still on jacket. SIGNED by Earl Emerson on the title page. A Thomas Black mystery. “What in hell drove Balinda to a night like this?” Everyone who knew Balinda could have told Seattle private eye Thomas Black that the ex-choir girl thumbed a ride with the devil a long time ago. But not even Luther Little, Balinda’s father and Black’s former partner, expected the pretty young woman to simply vanish off the face of the earth. Even stranger than Balinda’s disappearance is what she left in her wake: an empty purse, a wrecked car, and a dead Eagle Scout in the backseat pumped four times in the stomach with an automatic…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH