Death of a Mystery Writer
de Barnard, Robert
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- As New in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0743229347
- ISBN 13
- 9780743229340
- Librería
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Scribner. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover.Cream boards withlighter spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 192 pages. Scribner Crime Classics. First published in 1979, Death of a Mystery Writer received an Edgar Award nomination for "Best Novel" of that year. It's with great pleasure that Scribner reissues this beloved novel from one of the most respected names in crime writing.Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, overweight and overbearing, collapses and dies at his birthday party while indulging his taste for rare liquors. He had promised his daughter he would be polite and charitable for the entire day, but the strain of such exemplary behavior was obviously too great. He leaves a family relieved to be rid of him, and he also leaves a fortune, earned as a bestselling mystery author.To everyone's surprise, Sir Oliver's elder son, who openly hated his father, inherits most of the estate. His wife, his daughter, and his younger son are each to receive the royalties from one carefully chosen book. But the manuscript of the unpublished volume left to Sir Oliver's wife -- a posthumous "last case" that might be worth millions -- has disappeared. And Sir Oliver's death is beginning to look less than natural.Into this bitter household comes Inspector Meredith, a spirited Welshman who in some ways resembles Sir Oliver's fictional hero. In Robert Barnard's skillful hands, Inspector Meredith's investigation becomes not only a classic example of detection but an elegant and humorous slice of crime. .
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- Librería
- Storbeck's (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 609428
- Título
- Death of a Mystery Writer
- Autor
- Barnard, Robert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Edición
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0743229347
- ISBN 13
- 9780743229340
- Editorial
- Scribner
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Palabras clave
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective-MassMarketPB;
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