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A beach holiday is ruined by a murder, committed with a cyanide-sprinkled sandwich.The death of a guest casts a shadow over the summer holiday season at Oakfields mansion.The murder weapon is discovered: a sandwich, seasoned with a good pinch of cyanide.Motives abound among the other holidaymakers staying at Oakfields, a strange and fascinating group of people with plenty of secrets to hide...
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Emma Page first began writing as a hobby, and after a number of her poems had been accepted by the BBC and her short stories began appearing in weekly magazines, she took to writing radio plays and crime novels. She was first published in the Crime Club, which later become Collins Crime.An English graduate from Oxford, Emma Page taught in every kind of educational establishment the UK and abroad before she started writing full-time.
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- PublisherThe Crime Club
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0002312468
- ISBN 13 9780002312462
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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ISBN 13: 9780002312462
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Red coloured boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. At the height of the summer holiday season a number of people converge on Oakfield, Navarone as a private guesthouse. Within the group of people were a number of motives for murder, some recent, some reaching far back into the past, but all of them mercilessly exposed when one of the group dies unnaturally and it is clear that among these pleasant, ordinary people is someone prepared to kill. A little rubbing of the book edges with some marks to the text block edges. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels and there is a small tear to the lower left hand corner of the rear panel. Some sunning of the rear panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 224 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0002312468. ISBN/EAN: 9780002312462. Inventory No: 0222133. Seller Inventory # 0222133
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