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Malice Aforethought: The Story of a Commonplace Crime
by Iles, Francis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0575024194
- ISBN 13
- 9780575024199
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Victor Gollancz, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 288pp. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Spine heel and lower edge bumped. Top and top half of fore-edge tanning. Page margins tanning. Internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded; covers very lightly soiled, some wear along edges. Second reissue.
Synopsis
Malice Aforethought is a murder mystery novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It involves a Devon physician who slowly poisons his domineering wife so that he may be with the woman he loves. It is an early and prominent example of the "inverted detective story", invented by R. Austin Freeman some years earlier. The murderer's identity is revealed in the first line of the novel, which gives the reader insight into the workings of his mind as his plans progress.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015404
- Title
- Malice Aforethought: The Story of a Commonplace Crime
- Author
- Iles, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0575024194
- ISBN 13
- 9780575024199
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- X weight
- 0 kg
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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