SINS FOR FATHER KNOX.
by Skvorecky, Josef
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's embossed seal on title page, otherwise like new, appears unread)./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393025128
- ISBN 13
- 9780393025125
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About This Item
New York:: Norton,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's embossed seal on title page, otherwise like new, appears unread).. First US printing. A collection of ten short stories each featuring Eva Adam, "a nightclub singer and garrulous meddler in other people's affairs, [who] tours worldwide, each stop comprising a single story and a single crime, and each story violates one of Father Ronald A. Knox's rules for writing detective fiction." The list of Knox's Ten Commandments, written in 1929 during the Golden Age of Detective fiction in England, is printed at the front of the book. Translated from the Cxech by Kaca Polackove Henley. Introduction by the author, solutions at the back. 268 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72728
- Title
- SINS FOR FATHER KNOX.
- Author
- Skvorecky, Josef
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's embossed seal on title page, otherwise like new, appears unread).
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393025128
- ISBN 13
- 9780393025125
- Publisher
- Norton,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1973)
- Keywords
- short story collection, literature in translation, czech writer,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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