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The first in a series of contemporary crime novels featuring thirtysomething North London antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare who must work out why someone has tried to force her off the road whilst driving home, why her father has received a threatening note, and why her shady but charming ex-husband wants her back in his life.
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Marianne Macdonald was born in Northern Ontario, where she lived until the age of twenty, when she moved to England to study at Oxford. After a lengthy academic career, she returned to the writing and acting she loved as a child. She lives in Muswell Hill, England.
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Dido Hoare is an antiquarian book dealer in London, following the footsteps of her ailing, semi-retiring father Barnabas. Her apartment is over her store, while Barnabas lives nearby. Driving home from Banbury one night, Dido is followed, threateningly, almost all the way. Soon after, she's approached by ex-husband Davey Winner, a promiscuous painter/wheeler-dealer who'd left her for vapid Ilona and who now, amid signs of temporary prosperity, wants back into Dido's life. It becomes apparent that something strange is afoot when Dido's shop is trashed--and then Davey is killed by a bomb placed in the new car he never could have afforded. Detective Inspector Paul Grant enters the picture, making security arrangements for Dido and her father and becoming a romantic distraction for Dido. The murder of visiting Professor Warren, buyer for a New England library and Barnabas's friend and best customer, brings into focus the motive for all the violence: possession of an ancient volume containing a poem written in Shakespeare's own hand and signed by him. Past this point the skillfully built tension begins to evaporate in a tangle of secret meetings, shady characters, talk of drug-dealing, the mafia, Russian ex-agents, and the pros and cons of the volume's authenticity. Newcomer Macdonald's lucid, irony-edged, unfussy narration makes antique-book lore interesting even to the uninitiated, and her charmingly off-beat heroine is a character most readers will want to hear from again. Next time, if we're lucky, she'll be engaged in shenanigans less confusing than these. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton General Division
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 034067153X
- ISBN 13 9780340671535
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. The author's first novel and the first with antiquarian bookseller, Dido Hoare. Text block is tight with no loose pages but is slightly cocked and pages are tanned as usual. A great bibliomystery ! Dust jacket protected in clear mylar wrapper; bubble wrapped, boxed, and shipped with USPS Tracking (USA only). Seller Inventory # 002340
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing with numer line with "1". SIGNED BUT NOT PERSONALIZED "Best Wishes/ Mairiane Macdonald" on tne title page. Fine, some toning about the edges of the text block but internally clean. In fine crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 214 pp. The author's first book and the first Dido Hoare mystery. Dido, a smart, independent, moderately successfull thirty-something independent bookseller from Islington becomes involved in a mystery when, returning from a late-night book buying call, she's nearly run off the road; soon after is shop is vandalized and searched. Who's searching for what, and why? One of the high spots of late 20th century mystery novels. Seller Inventory # E18632
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. SIGNED Presentation copy. FINE deep purple boards with Bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. The TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. The First UK Edition precedes the 1st USA by a year. Signed by the Author underneath her printed name on the title page, with a presentation note to me ("For Sue Lloyd-Davies") above the printed title. As usual with this type of paper the page edges are uniformly beginning to tan with age, otherwise the book is 'As New' with the FINE d/j now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover. No other Inscriptions or Marks. (10) + 214 pp. The First Dido Hoare 'Biblio' Mystery. A delight for all booklovers, for anyone connected with the book trade, for crime fiction/mystery fans, or just for anyone who revels in a good read! . Quite Scarce. See Images. ISBN 034067153X ; The Dido Hoare Mysteries; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 113708
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