An edition of When the Bough Breaks (1985)

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An edition of When the Bough Breaks (1985)

When the Bough Breaks

First edtion
  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
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  • 3 Have read

We meet Dr. Morton Handler who practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.

Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job is to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. As the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past. This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.

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Publisher
Atheneum
Language
English
Pages
295

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Cover of: When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
2001, Thorndike Press, Chivers Press
in English
Cover of: When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks: Alex Delaware #1
December 1, 1994, Bantam Book, div of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc., Bantam
Mass Market Paperback in English - 14th Bantam Printing
Cover of: When The Bough Breaks
When The Bough Breaks: Alex Delaware #1
December 1, 1994, Bantam Book, div of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc.
Paperback in English - 1st Bantam Printing
Cover of: When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks
1992, Time Warner Paperbacks
Paperback
Cover of: When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks
October 1, 1988, Random House Audio
Audio Cassette in English
Cover of: When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks
October 1, 1988, Random House Audio
Audio Cassette in English
Cover of: When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks: TV Tie-in Edition
May 6, 1986, Signet
Cover of: When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
1986, New American Library
in English
Cover of: When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks: TV Tie-in Edition
May 6, 1986, Signet
Cover of: When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
1986, New American Library
in English
Cover of: When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
1986, Futura
in English
Cover of: Whisper's Lonely Heart
Whisper's Lonely Heart
1986, New American Library, Signet Book: New American Library
Cover of: When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks
May 6, 1986, Signet
in English
Cover of: When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks
March 12, 1985, Atheneum
Hardcover in English - First edtion

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Book Details


First Sentence

"It was shaping up to be a beautiful morning."

Edition Notes

$15.95
Printing statement: "First Edition"

Published in
New York City, New York, USA
Series
Alex Delaware #1
Copyright Date
1982

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.E3865 W44 1985

Contributors

Book Designer
Harry Ford
Cover Art
Bill Tinker

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
293 p. ; [2]
Number of pages
295
Dimensions
24.1 x 16.5 x 2.9 centimeters
Weight
680 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2854365M
Internet Archive
whenboughbreaks0000kell
ISBN 10
0689115199
LCCN
84016805
OCLC/WorldCat
11030592
Library Thing
35795
Goodreads
1103051

Work Description

In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.

It's child psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. But as the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past. This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.--Goodreads

Excerpts

It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
Page 1, added by ED Power.

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