Innocence and arsenic : studies in crime and literature / by Albert Borowitz
by Borowitz, Albert
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0060104139
- ISBN 13
- 9780060104139
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About This Item
New York [etc.] ; London : Harper and Row, 1977. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 170 pages; Physical desc. : xv, 170p. ; 22cm. Subject: Crime in literature - Addresses, essays, lectures. Literature - Special subjects - Crime - Critical studies - Essays. Contents: The Snows on the Moors: C. P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson on the Moors Murder case -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Stevenson -- Why Thackeray went to see a man hanged -- The mystery of Edwin Drood -- Salieri and the ""murder"" of Mozart -- New gaslight on Jack the Ripper -- M. Tullius Cicero for the defense -- Psychological kidnapping in Italy: the case of Aldo Braibanti -- Henri de Latouche and the murder memoirs of Clarisse Manson -- The Jackal and I, or how to do research in London. Notes: 'A Joan Kahn book' - half title page.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 173508
- Title
- Innocence and arsenic : studies in crime and literature / by Albert Borowitz
- Author
- Borowitz, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060104139
- ISBN 13
- 9780060104139
- Publisher
- New York [etc.] ; London : Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1977
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