Mary Higgins Clark BEFORE I SAY GOODBYE First Edition Signed

First USA edition, first print hardback of BEFORE I SAY GOODBYE by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Simon & Schuster, NY, in 2000. Signed and inscribed to a previous owner by Clark on the title page. Full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 

The book is in very good condition (clean blue boards quarterbound in a black paper spine with gold lettering on spine) with only minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.

Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, delves into the mystery of psychic powers in her gripping thriller, Before I Say Good-Bye. 

When Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, Cornelia II, blows up in New York harbor with him and several close business associates aboard, his wife, Nell McDermott, is not only distraught at the loss but wracked with guilt because she and Adam had just had a serious quarrel and she had told him not to come home.

The quarrel was precipitated by Nell's decision to try to win the congressional seat long held by her grandfather Cornelius MacDermott. Orphaned at age ten, she had been raised by Mac, as she called him, and was always at his side on Capitol Hill. Politics was in her blood, and Adam had known her ambitions when they married. Suddenly, however, he became opposed to her plan to run for Congress.

Nell, like her great-aunt Gert, possesses psychic gifts, which her grandfather scoffingly dismisses as flights of fantasy. As a child she had been aware of the deaths of both her parents and grandmother at the exact moment they died. She knew because at that very moment she sensed their presence near her. 

Even though Nell has the rare gift of extrasensory perception, she is much too levelheaded to accept most of the claims made by many so-called psychics and is skeptical about Aunt Gert's fascination with mediums. After Adam's death, however, Gert begs Nell to see a medium, Bonnie Wilson, who has contacted her, claiming she is in touch with Adam. Still regretting her last angry words to Adam, Nell agrees, hoping that she will be able to reach him through the medium and part from him in peace.

As the investigation into the boat's explosion proceeds, Nell is shocked by the official confirmation that it was not an accident but the result of foul play. Adam, an architect, had been involved in a major construction project on land he had recently purchased and which had since had a spectacular rise in value.

Was Adam the target of the explosion? As Nell searches for the truth about Adam's death, she receives messages from Adam transmitted by the medium. What she does not know is that she is being closely watched, and the nearer she comes to learning what actually happened on the boat that night, the nearer she is to becoming the next victim of a ruthless killer.

332 pages.

ISBN: 0 684 83598 3

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