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Well-Schooled in Murder
by George, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0593019733
- ISBN 13
- 9780593019733
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bantam Press. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0593019733 . FINE red boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. The d/j is NOT price clipped, with no chips or similar. The rear cover has some red marks and I'm unsure whether this is as published (indicating blood/murder) or an offsetting publishing fault? The dustjacket is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks As New. Unusually with clean, white page fore-edges. Looks Unread. NO inscriptions or marks. 352 pp. The Author's third crime novel featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. " When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster..." . See Images. ; Inspector Lynley and Barbara Havers; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .
Synopsis
Elizabeth George’s first novel, A Great Deliverance , was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Her third novel, Well-Schooled in Murder , was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI. A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory , and I, Richard were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114581
- Title
- Well-Schooled in Murder
- Author
- George, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0593019733
- ISBN 13
- 9780593019733
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0593019733, Well - Schooled In Murder By Elizabeth George, The Third Inspector Lynley Book, With Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, 1st UK Edition Copy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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