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For the Sake of Elena
by George, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0553081187
- ISBN 13
- 9780553081183
- Seller
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Modesto, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0553081187 . SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with no further inscription, on the title page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light rubbing and wear to the top corners. "Her first published novel was A Great Deliverance (1988). It introduces Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, in private life the Earl of Asherton, privately educated (Eton College and Oxford University) ; his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grammar school educated and from a working-class background—both from Scotland Yard; Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend and later wife; and Lynley's former school friend, the forensic scientist Simon St. James and his wife, Deborah. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge--where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College--her father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve--until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, bludgeoned her to death.Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide murderous intentions.For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive. Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena and on those people who appeared to know her best--from an unsavory Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the Deaf Students Union.What's more, Elena's father, a Cambridge professor under consideration for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind to her blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal.From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A42406
- Title
- For the Sake of Elena
- Author
- George, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition; 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0553081187
- ISBN 13
- 9780553081183
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- 0553081187, Mystery, Elizabeth George, England, St. Stephen's College
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About the Seller
S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
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Modesto, California
About S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 30 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.
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