A lonely place to die: A novel of suspense by Wessel Ebersohn - 1979

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1979. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1979. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Pantheon Books. hardcover. Good. 8x5x0.

New York. 1979. September 1979. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394508556. South African Mystery. 205 pages. hardcover. Jacket by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Mystery South Africa Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is a most promising first detective novel from South Africa, a debut which we feel sure will attract attention and admiration. Its story starts when a Jewish prison psychiatrist is brought in to examine the black man he is told has just poisoned a local bigwig. But the terrified, quivering schizophrenic who is huddling in the prison cell is clearly not capable of poisoning anyone. Who then is the murderer, and how can he be uncovered? This startling, tough new novel brings us into the heart of darkest South Africa, exposing a landscape very similar to the American South of fifty years ago. Indeed, our psychiatrist hero soon stumbles across a local gang resembling the KKK and discovers that the victim may well have been its leader. As with all good detective… Read More

Pantheon Books, January 1979. Hardcover. USED Good. First American edition. Slightly cocked. Dust jacket is lightly shelf worn.

New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0394508556 . Spine is beginning to crack at front endpaper. Front endpaper is browning. ; 205 pages .

New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394508556 . Light cock, light edge foxing, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket light rub, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover. ; "As with all good detective stories, the setting is brilliantly established. Ebersohn, though this is his first novel, writes extremely well and knows the intricacies of South African life intimately. His book shows us the worlds of both blacks and whites, and convincingly leads us into the terror of their clashes." ; 205 pages .

First US edition first printing of the first novel by this author and first novel in the Yudel Gordon series. The whites of the dust jacket have tanned. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, slightly marked and edge worn. Previous ownership inscription. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

NY: Pantheon, 1979. FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. NY. Pantheon. HARDCOVER. 1979. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. AS NEW, bound in black on black with blue gilt titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Cover art by Fred Marcellino. Debut novel, psychiatrist, South Africa.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.