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      The Motive on Record

      by Dell Shannon
      Published
      Apr 1982
      Main Genre
      Police Procedural Police Procedural
      Pages
      221
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      Series
      A Luis Mendoza Mystery Book 33
      Also Appears In
      Worldwide Mysteries Book 49

      About This Book

      Death is everywhere. A child in a playground. A playboy in a cheap hotel. A John Doe in a freight yard. A nanny and her two charges in a church pew.

      After twenty-six years in homicide, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza knows death is all in a day's work. But in the heat of a Los Angeles summer, even the predictable becomes bizarre. And for a hard-boiled cop with a decidedly soft centre, nothing is more implausible than human nature - especially when it comes to murder . . .

      'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times

      Series Placement

      Book 33
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      Also Appears In
      Worldwide Mysteries
      Book 49
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Suspense

      Subgenres

      Law Enforcement Police Procedural

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      May 1990 Worldwide ISBN13 9780373260492 ISBN10 0373260490
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      First Edition Apr 1982 William Morrow ISBN13 9780688010997 ISBN10 0688010997
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      Oct 2014 Orion ISBN10 B00O7X63IE
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      Oct 2014 Orion (UK) ISBN13 9781471914218 ISBN10 1471914216
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      Jan 1982 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780896213944 ISBN10 0896213943
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