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OFF WITH HIS HEAD.
de Marsh, Ngaio (1895 - 1982)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very good in red boards with black lettering on spine in a good dust jacket (toning to book and dj, chip to dj at base of spine)/red boards with black lettering on spine in a good
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London:: Collins / The Crime Club,, (1957). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in red boards with black lettering on spine in a good dust jacket (toning to book and dj, chip to dj at base of spine) Original price of 12s 6d on dj. . First UK printing. Mystery set in a small English village, which had a strange annual folk dance ritual, by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction Features Superintendent Roderick Alleyn. Originally published in the US in 1956 as 'Death of a Fool.' 287 pp.
Sinopsis
Off With His Head is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the nineteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1957. The plot concerns a village festival in the English countryside, and features Morris dancing among other folkloric elements. The novel was published as Death of a Fool in the United States, a reference to the fact that the murder victim is playing a Fool in the festival.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 85995
- Título
- OFF WITH HIS HEAD.
- Autor
- Marsh, Ngaio (1895 - 1982)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good in red boards with black lettering on spine in a good dust jacket (toning to book and dj, chip to dj at base of spine)
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- red boards with black lettering on spine in a good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Collins / The Crime Club,
- Lugar de publicación
- London:
- Fecha de publicación
- (1957)
- Palabras clave
- golden age, detective fiction,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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