Sidetracked (Kurt Wallender Mystery) Tapa dura - 2000

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Very Good.

London: The Harvill Press, 2000. First British edition, signed by the author to the title page. Hardback. 421pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. A young girl, possibly a foreigner, commits suicide in baffling circumstances. One, and then another, and then another, vicious murder - and not one of them with an obvious motive - shatter the tranquillity of the Swedish province of Skane. It falls to Inspector Wallander of the Ystad Police to try to solve the crimes. Sidetracked was winner of the Best Crime Novel of the Year award in Sweden and France's Prix de la Critique. It is the second in the critically acclaimed Wallander series. Both book and jacket are in near fine condition. Jacket unclipped.

First UK edition/first printing. Unread. Tight square spine, crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket clean with no rips or creases, protected by archival cover. Not a remainder. Not a book club printing.

Harvill, 2000. 1st UK edition. Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame.. Hardback. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper.

UK: Harvill Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in likewise fine dustwrapper. The second Kurt Wallander adventure from this talented writer to be translated into English. Very small hardcover edition of roughly 1,000 copies. CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel. Also Won Best Crime Novel Of The Year Award in Sweden and France's Prix Mystere de la Critque.

London, United Kingdom: Harvill Press, 2000. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Tall octavo. Black endpapers. 421pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is also as new; the original price (16.99) is intact. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...<big>K</big>urt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset… Leer más

London:: Harvill Press,, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First UK printing. The fifth book (and the third to be published in English) in the award winning series featuring Inspector Kurt Wallender. "Midsummer approaches, and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. WallanderÕs hunt for the girlÕs identity and his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger." Winner of the Best Crime Novel of the year in Sweden, and of France's Prix Mystere de la Critique, and the UK's CWA Gold Dagger Award. SIGNED on the title page. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Issued in a… Leer más