THE MARSHAL AND THE MADWOMAN Tapa dura - 1988

London: Collins Crime Club, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Binding tight, boards clean and corners square, Pages age toned but no markings. Jacket not clipped £9.95 with some edge creasing, small split to front bottom corner and rubbing to edges and spine ends. In pvc protective jacket. Not ex-library. No names, notes or inscriptions. 223 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.

London, United Kingdom: Collins Crime Club, 1988. 1st edition. Fine in fine, unclipped dust jacket £9.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. [FLORENCE]. A NY Times selection for notable crime novels Out giving his wife driving lessons, Marshal Guarnaccia of the Carabinieri witnesses a disturbance in the streets involving a local eccentric, “crazy Clementina.” When the woman is found dead in her apartment soon after the incident of an apparent suicide, the marshal is puzzled and immediately suspects foul play. But who would have a motive to kill her? As the marshal dives into the case and reconstructs Clementina’s tragic past, his investigation dredges up the events surrounding a disastrous flood some twenty years earlier and a controversial piece of legislation with profound effects on the lives of Italy’s mentally unstable residents.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.