Well-Schooled in Murder (Inscribed and Signed First Edition)

Elizabeth George

ISBN 10: 0553070002 / ISBN 13: 9780553070002

Published by Bantam, 1990

About this Item

First edition inscribed and signed by the author. Bound with navy blue cloth spine and black paper boards. Gilt title on the spine. This novel is the third book in the Inspector Lynley series. When 13-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from the prestigious Bredgar Chambers public school in West Sussex, Inspector Thomas Lynley is called in to help. 356pp. Illustrated dustjacket in a mylar cover.CONDITION: Light shelf wear. A small stain on the bottom foredge. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are square and tight. Dustjacket appears unmarked but the factory applied clear layer is showing areas of delamination. Mylar cover is mildly rubbed. Full refund if not satisfied.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Well-Schooled in Murder (Inscribed and Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553070002
• ISBN 13: 9780553070002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 24 ounces
• Signed: Inscribed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction & Classics & Literature

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Synopsis

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers's cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew's death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds—and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....


From the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Elizabeth George’s first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Her third novel, Well-Schooled in Murder, was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI. A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory, and I, Richard were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC.


From the Trade Paperback edition.