Hardback, First Edition, First Impression. Stock image used. Book Condition: Near Fine. Boards are clean, unmarked and undamaged. Page block is tight, clean and appears unread, albeit with a partial tan line on the top edge: there are no inscriptions or other apparent markings. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The unclipped jacket has a small nick to the upper forward corner, but is otherwise clean and bright. Washington Poe has a story to tell and he needs you to listen. You'll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows. Dozens of them. Enough for a murder . . . He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family. And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill the