Like Love by Ed McBain, paperback, 1st Edition

An 87th Precinct Mystery

Near perfect, gently read copy. Handwritten date on inside front page. Binding is tight. Pages are clean. Non-smoking home.

Synopsis:

It was obviously a lovers' pact, a sad but simple double suicide...Case closed.

Yet somehow everthing was a little too neat, and Steve, Cotton, and the boys of the 87th Precinct took one last look around, just routine, of course. Their routine check turned up three possible suspects: the deceased girl's mother, with an insurance policy on her daughter; the bereft husband, whose wife died in another man's arms; and the dead man's brother, who kept protesting that it was a clear-cut case of murder. But how, Steve and Cotton wondered, do you catch a cold-blooded killer and make him confess, when you can't prove the victims were actually murdered...?