BEAT NOT THE BONES.
by Jay, Charlotte
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good.
- Seller
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Loomis, California, United States
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Synopsis
Beat Not the Bones is a 1952 suspense novel by Charlotte Jay (pseudonym of Geraldine Halls) which won the inaugural Edgar award for best novel . The novel follows the actions of a sheltered young women who arrives in New Guinea from Australia, determined to find out what really happened to her husband, the Chief Anthropologist in the colonial administration. His death has been ascribed to suicide but she has reason to believe it was murder.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chloe s Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1704
- Title
- BEAT NOT THE BONES.
- Author
- Jay, Charlotte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 1952
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