DEATH OF A MERRY WIDOW by Hunt, Richard - 1995

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1995. 1st US edition, January 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. This is the first in the highly acclaimed Detective Inspector Sidney Walsh series. Cambridge University don Maureen Helmont was found murdered. But Maureen seemed an unlikely sort to meet a violent end: Affectionately known as the "Merry Widow" by her academic colleagues, the attractive and charming woman was universally well liked. Why then was she smothered to death in her sleep? It soon becomes apparent that Maureen kept many secrets. The university lecturer and authority on the Brontes was also the pseudonymous author of a series of explicit romantic novels, as well as of her own yet-to-be published amorous memoirs. As the police discover, between these dual lives the "Merry Widow" made at least one lethal enemy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.