Peter Lovesey began writing mysteries in 1970 and has won the British Crime Writers' Association Silver and Gold Daggers as well as the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. In the United States he has won the Edgar Award as well as the Ellery Queen Reader's Award. This copy of Diamond Dust is the first edition proof. This is the First American edition. The book is in As New condition and there are no flaws.These are the stories of Detective Inspector Peter Diamond, a bluff, old-fashioned policeman who is nearing his fiftieth birthday. When a shooting is reported in Bath's Victoria Park, Diamond rushes to the scene. But he is soon ordered by his superiors to leave the solution of this crime to others. How can he? This time the victim is someone that he loves. Great mystery!