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A Commonplace Killing
by Busby, Sian
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1780722060
- ISBN 13
- 9781780722061
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2014* Publisher: Short Book.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Single crease to spine, not to hinge. Seems lightly used. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: B/w photo-illustrations, at rear in the ?Bonus? section.* Pages: 283 pp. text. xxxi pp. advertisements, bibliography, acknowledgements, discussion & notes at rear.* Product Description:- London, July 1946. A woman's body is found in a disused bomb site off the Holloway Road. She is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a 'respectable wife and mother' who lived with her family nearby. The police assume that Lillian must have been the victim of a sexual assault; but when the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, they turn their attention to her private life... How did she come to be in the bomb site, a well-known lovers haunt? Why was her husband seemingly unaware that she'd failed to come home on the night she was killed? In this deeply evocative crime drama, Siân Busby strips away the veneer of stoicism and respectability in post-war Britain to reveal a society riven with disillusionment and loss.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. FNL. with minimal shelf wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 714
- Title
- A Commonplace Killing
- Author
- Busby, Sian
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 1780722060
- ISBN 13
- 9781780722061
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 304
- Date Published
- 2014-01-02
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- Size
- 13 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
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