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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 243 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Joan Tate. First American edition. Fabulously wealthy, she wants her nieces and nephews in the three warring branches of the her family to love and respect each other. But they all seem filled with jealously and hate as they vie obsequiously for their aunt's favor. Now as Aunt Charlotte calls the whole family together for her ninetieth birthday party, the Bernheims, the Svenssons and the Corns sharpen their already well-honored talents for blackmail, deceit, adultery and backstabbing. There is Martin, an eager businessman with an instinct for disastrous investments; his son Victor, a notorious gambler, womanizer and porno photographer; Gittan, a voluptuous though pea-brained pin-up girl; Fredrick, a drunken schemer; Mauritz, prudent keeper of the family accounts; Malin his sultry assistant and daughter; an Ulla, Aunt Charlotte's most ardent flatterer. With relative like these shut up together in a country mansion, it no surprise when double murder strikes. Inspector Betril Durell must find his way through many red herrings and before he comes upon the answer the murderer strikes again. Previous owner's embossed imprint on front end paper, light shelf wear, heal corners gently bumped. Jacket front fold over flap creased else a very good copy in near fine jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS006337
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing of 1st U.S. edition. Very Good hardcover in Very Good DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; very slight fading along cover edges; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; lightly scuffed. 8vo, 243 pp. This is a new, unread book that has been on the shelf for some time. ISBN given in book: 068417765X. Seller Inventory # B00862
Book Description paperback. Condition: As New. Seller Inventory # 230412295
Book Description Condition: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book. Seller Inventory # 6-068417765X-G
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. Very good. Hard cover, fiction, mystery, Sweden. First Edition. Seller Inventory # 140626-JM109
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U S Edition. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Scribners. HARDCOVER. 1983. FIRST U S EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in blue with silver titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. 'A novel by Sweden's best-selling mystery author'. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. Jacket design by Tim Gaydos. Featuring ninety-year-old aunt Charlotte Lethander. Seller Inventory # 003817
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. first edition, includes the dust jacket. Seller Inventory # mon0002995576
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. A first American Edition/First Printing in Fine condition housed in a dust-jacket that is somewhat shelfworn, else Nearly Fine; When three estranged sisters reunite for their mother's funeral, they are forced to confront their past and present. Each sister has a different story to tell and secrets to reveal. As the sisters share their stories, the secrets between them begin to reveal themselves and soon the family is threatened by the deadly secrets they have kept.; 8vo; 243 pages. Seller Inventory # 56689