Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
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Blurb: “When William Dear began his search for Dallas Egbert, be had four possibilities in mind: suicide, runaway kidnapping, and murder. But in the course of is astomshing, grueling investigation of life at MSU- and of a young man's tragic alienation from society— he came to understand that there could be no single explanation for the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert MI.
"IT'S A RARE READER WHO WILL PUT THE BOOK DOWN UNFINISHED....
Dear's book has all the elements of a good Ross MacDonald detective novel. First there's the missing boy. A shy homosexual youth with a history of drug abuse, Egbert was addicted to science fiction and the tantasy game Dungeons & Dragons. Then there is author/private investigator Dear, who emerges in his own account as a kind of investigative Everyman: a hard guy with a soft heart, single-minded in his quest to find Dallas Egbert...Dear immersed himselfin Dallas Egberts world. He tried Dungeons & Dragons, experiencing a discomfiting merger of his personality into the role the game required him to play.... He grew obsessed with the need to search Michigan States nightmarish tunnels where Dallas Egbert had obsessively played a dangerous real-life version of the Fascination ol Dear i hook ic detecte scipion of the investigation itself and what it revealed about the darker side of campus life. - Newsweek”