New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing investigator Carroll Dorsey who was on his way to becoming a basketball star when an injury ended that dream. Now-he's a private detective in Pittsburgh, working insurance fraud cases. The author's first novel, set in Pittburgh and in the depressed steel towns of the Alleghany Vally. Finalist in the St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel contest. SIGNED on the title page. 266 pp. Dust jacket art by Sandra Dionisi. ISBN: 0-312104618.