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Abra Cadaver by James Tucker. Published by Signet in January 1999. Advance Reading Copy and uncorrected proof issued before the commercially released edition. This copy is inscribed on the title page, “I hope you enjoy Abra Cadaver,” and signed “Jim Tucker,” appearing to be the author’s signature. A collectible prepublication copy of Tucker’s medical crime thriller. Synopsis After an embalmed body is recovered from the Allegheny River, investigators are left with a disturbing question: why was a person who apparently died of natural causes thrown into the water? A year later, young surgeon Dr. Jack Merlin discovers that the cadaver being dissected in a Pittsburgh medical-school anatomy lab is his roommate, who disappeared months earlier. An amateur magician as well as a physician, Merlin must use his knowledge of medicine and illusion to uncover the truth—and survive a deadly investigation.