Skip to content

A Hovering of Vultures
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

A Hovering of Vultures Hardcover - 1993

by Robert Barnard

  • Used

The author of A Scandal in Belgravia takes on skullduggery in literary society. Two minor Yorkshire literary figures came to an unhappy ending more than 50 years ago, never having achieved any great literary acclaim. Why then does greedy Gerald Suzman want to establish a fan club in their honor?

Description

Scribner/Macmillan. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Used - Good
NZ$9.33
NZ$6.63 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 5 to 9 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Wonder Book (Maryland, United States)

Details

  • Title A Hovering of Vultures
  • Author Robert Barnard
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner/Macmillan, New York
  • Date 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B20A-03481
  • ISBN 9780684196251 / 0684196255
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.51 x 6.41 x 0.94 in (24.16 x 16.28 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93019371
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About Wonder Book Maryland, United States

Biblio member since 2003
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. In 2002 USAToday recognized us as \"1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores\", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan.

Terms of Sale:

RETURNS are cheerfully accepted up to 30 days. We ship out within 1-2 business days and U.S. Standard Shipments usually arrive within 6-9 business days, Priority 3-6.

Browse books from Wonder Book

From the rear cover

What better victim in a Robert Barnard novel than the literary poseur? And what better place to find such a person than in a society set up to honor the dubious talents of Susannah and Joshua Sneddon? Not quite in the league of the Brontes, Susannah and Joshua toiled at their creative tasks in a remote cottage in a tiny Yorkshire village in the early years of this century. Neither wrote great literature, but Susannah's work was always the more popular. Perhaps that's why Joshua one day killed his sister with an ax and shot himself in the head. Now, many years later, there's a surprising new interest in the Sneddons, seemingly inspired by entrepreneur Gerald Suzman. Suzman has bought the Sneddon homestead, with plans to open it as a museum and to found a literary society known as the Sneddon Fellowship. Sneddon fans from as far away as America, Norway, and Japan have gathered at Suzman's invitation for the inaugural Sneddon Weekend. Detective Constable Charlie Peace has come, too, intrigued by Suzman's sudden literary interest in the obscure Yorkshire siblings. Suzman's history indicates a far greater affinity for wealth than for literature, so he must have discovered an unlikely source of profit in the Fellowship. But where? Charlie fears that elderly American Lettie Farraday may know too much for her own good. Lettie, who has returned to the village of her birth for the first time in more than fifty years, is the only conferee who personally knew the Sneddons. Too much knowledge may be dangerous. To read a new Robert Barnard novel is to appreciate once again the extraordinary range and depth of one of the greatest of contemporary crime writers. A Hovering of Vultures is vintage Barnardfrom a writer at the peak of his powers.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/1993, Page 2011
  • Library Journal, 09/01/1993, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/26/1993, Page 0