The black marble

In this novel, Joseph Wambaugh presents a major surprise: a tale in which crime is secondary to love, and dogs are sometimes more important than people. For here is the strange world of dog shows, the stranger story of a dognapping extortion scheme, and, right in the middle of it all, the most unusual of love stories.

First sentence: An explosion of chrysanthemums, candlelight, Oriental carpets, Byzantine eyes.

Year

1978

Language

English

Publisher

Dell

Editions

2

Pages

416

ISBN

9780440613961

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