252p. ; red cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto the front cover with the text: Run: a most unusual blending of the detective story, psychological thriller, man-hunt thriller * It's very exciting. It's strangely fascinating. It's by Margaret Shedd well-known for her stories in "The New Yorker"fictionIn the first sentence of the first paragraph a boy is running. We don't at once know what he is running from, or where he is running to, and not until the end of the book can we fully understand why he is running. It is a story about murder; and we want to know who committed the murder; and, bit by bit, we piece together the truth - which, by a feat of ingenious construction, is revealed very, very gradually while the action keeps moving at express speed ...fiction, crime, mystery, margaret shedd