THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES: A Professor Hilary Tamar narrative.
by Caudwell, Sarah
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002317389
- ISBN 13
- 9780002317382
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st edition, 1984. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 207 pp., bound in red cloth with illustrated dust jacket, $6.95. Jacket has minor overall fading and soiled with some light chipping at edges. Some minor age toning to end pages, text is unmarked. Binding is solid. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn ( 27 May 1939 - 28 January 2000), a British barrister and author of detective stories. Her series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999 centered on a group of young barristers practicing in Lincoln's Inn, narrated by a Hilary Tamar, a professor of medieval law whose gender is never specified, who fills the role of detective.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31948
- Title
- THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES
- Author
- Caudwell, Sarah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002317389
- ISBN 13
- 9780002317382
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
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- Soiled
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Chipping
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- Cloth
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