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THE MERCHANT'S HOUSE.
by Ellis, Kate
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312205627
- ISBN 13
- 9780312205621
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: St Martin's,, (1999). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. The author's first novel and the first book in this series of crime novels featuring Wesley Peterson, a black detective with a degree in archeology, the son of two Trinidadian doctors and a young husband, who has transferred from the Met to the seaside town of Tradmouth, where he becomes one of Devon's first black police officers. His old college friend Neil is heading an archaeological dig at a Tudor merchant's house, and the skeleton of a strangled young woman and a newborn baby are uncovered. Meanwhile Peterson is in involved in the search for a missing child and in the case of a brutal murder of a young woman. Behind all of these crimes, both medieval and modern, are the age-old motives of jealousy, sexual obsession, and desperate longing for a child. An engrossing and rewarding series, with both an historical and a contemporary mystery, and well-drawn characters. 246 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77138
- Title
- THE MERCHANT'S HOUSE.
- Author
- Ellis, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312205627
- ISBN 13
- 9780312205621
- Publisher
- St Martin's,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1999)
- Keywords
- first novel, first in series, devon setting, police procedural, regional mystery, archeology,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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