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Borrowed Time
by Goddard, Robert
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0552142239
- ISBN 13
- 9780552142236
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Corgi. Good+. 1995. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, light shelf and edge wear with some cover scuffing, slightly concaved spine, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of Corgi mass market edition, 1995. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover photo uncredited. ; 448 pages; It is a golden evening of high summer. Walking a ridge on the Welsh Borders, Robin Timariot meets by chance an elegant middle-aged woman who seems strangely out of place. They exchange only a few words of conversation, but those words prove unforgettable. A few days later Timariot learns from the newspapers that, just a few hours after their meeting, the woman, whose name was Louise Paxton, was raped and murdered. A man is swiftly charged and convicted, but a string of events convinces Timariot that all is not as it seems... .
Synopsis
The new novel by the most compulsive storyteller of them all.It is a golden evening of high summer in July 1990. Robin Timariot has set out that morning on what he has planned as a six-day tramp along part of Offa's Dyke. At the close of his first day's walk he encounters an elegant middle-aged woman who seems strangely out of place among the sheep and gorse of Hergest Ridge. They exchange only a few words of conversation, but their talk is enigmatic - and unforgettable. A few days later, at the end of his walk, Timariot returns home to learn from the newspapers that, just a few hours after their meeting, the woman, whose name was Louise Paxton, was raped and then murdered, along with an artist, Oscar Bantock, who lived near by.A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a string of inexplicable events begins to convince Timariot - and others - that all is not what it seems. Timariot, fascinated by Louise Paxton's memory, is drawn irresistibly into the complex motives and relationships of her family and friends, searching against his better judgement for the secret of what really happened on the day she died.The closer he gets to the truth, the more hideous and uncertain it seems to be. And far too late he realizes that it may threaten many powerful people. So much so that anybody who uncovers it is unlikely to be allowed to live.
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33423
- Title
- Borrowed Time
- Author
- Goddard, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0552142239
- ISBN 13
- 9780552142236
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Mass Market PB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thrillers;
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