Lethal legacy
By: Linda Fairstein
Series: Alex Cooper -- 11; Alexandra Cooper novels; Alex Cooper -- 11.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781408700792; 9781408700808
Subjects: Fiction; Public prosecutors; Rare books; New York Public Library
Description: Detectives Mike Chapman and Alexandra Cooper are called to an Upper East Side building where the body of a woman is found, battered to death and with a mysterious jewel encrusted book beside her. The book, part of a rare collection at the New York Public Library, could only have been stolen. Alex and Chapman are plunged into the deadly world ot the super rich, those who protect their fortunes and collections more carefully than they do other people's lives.