5.75" x 8.5", 192 page hardcover titled CHASING AWAY THE DEVIL by Susan Rogers Cooper/ St. Martin's Press, ISBN # 0-312-06316-4, First Edition, First Printing, Copyright 1991/ Sheriff Milt Kovak Mystery Book 4. Head deputy of Prophesy County, Okla., Milt Kovak, seen last in Other People's Houses, is well into middle age and still proposing marriage to his divorced childhood sweetheart, Glenda Sue. One rodeo night she refuses him yet again and won't even let him sleep in her trailer. Next day she is found covered with cigarette burns and with her throat cut in her ransacked trailer. Though warned off the case by the sheriff because of his emotional involvement, Milt determines to investigate. Glenda Sue's daughter Melissa arrives from California with her small daughter, Rebecca, whose father is black. During their stay with Milt, Melissa is knocked out, Rebecca locked in the cellar and Milt's house torn apart. What are the bad guys looking for? Why had Glenda Sue bought a one-way airline ticket to Paris and how did she afford it? As Milt finds out after Rebecca's been kidnapped, the answers involve a group of racist right-wingers, a lot of dirty money and some "nice" local people. The book is complete and in EXCELLENT condition with some overall light wear. The book is signed by Susan Rogers Cooper on the title page. (see pictures)