THE STATELY HOME MURDER: (Rue Morgue Classic British Mysteries)
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Boulder, CO, U.S.A., 2008
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.MURDER BY THE BOOK
AbeBooks seller since April 23, 1997
Condition: Used - As new
US$ 16.50
Quantity: 1 available
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1st printing. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. The 4th Detective Inspector Sloan title. The Earl of Ornum has been forced to open his 300-room ancestral estate to the public, who gladly pay to view the imposing halls and galleries with their fine collections of china, art and antique weaponry. On one memorable Sunday afternoon, the sights include a very recent corpse stuffed into a suit of armor, and soon Detective Inspector Sloan of the Calleshire CID is navigating the treacherous waters of the aristocracy, a copy of Burke's Peerage in one hand and his earnest young assistant, Constable Crosby, in tow. "There's something very old-fashioned about this-butlers and bodies in the library," complains the unhappy Superintendent Leeyes to Sloan. There is also a helpful vicar, a lovelorn steward, a black-sheep nephew, and two very old and eccentric aunts--everything, in fact, you could want in a stately home murder, with the possible exception of a secret passageway. First published in England in 1969 as "The Complete Steel", it's one ofthe finest and funniest books by this mistress ofthe gentle art of mayhem.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE STATELY HOME MURDER: (Rue Morgue Classic British Mysteries)
- Author
- Aird, Catherine
- Publisher
- Rue Morgue Press, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Pictorial Wrappers
- Edition
- 1st Prtg.
- Seller catalogs
- England, Mystery and Detective, Paperback, Rue Morgue, Z 3
MURDER BY THE BOOK
Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 23, 1997
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