A Common Death by Natasha Cooper - 1990

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Crown Publishing Group, The. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

NY: Crown Publishers. NF. 1990. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Stated first American edition with the full number line present. A nea r fine copy in a fine dust jacket. .

Crown, 1990-12-12. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing, full number line. Small tear on DJ, otherwise appears unread.. Unconditional money back guarantee.

264 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with black lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When plain, analytical Willow King is accused of her boss's murder, she begins her own investigation of the crime, discovering a certain gossip columnist with a motive for revenge, a scandal at her company, and someone who wants her silenced. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine copy.

New York: Crown, 1990. Hardcover. The first Willow King mystery. 1st U.S. edition, 1st printing. 264 pp. Fine book (no markings) / Fine dust jacket (price not clipped). A clean, fresh copy.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1990. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An excellent book. Authors First/Debut novel by Daphne Wright under the pen neame Natasha Cooper. The first Willow King mystery.

New York: Crown Publishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards quarterbound in tan cloth with title and author in black on spine. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 264 pages. A Willow King Mystery, No. 1. A murder, a secret identity, and a courageous heroine are the essential ingredients in this cleverly crafted and witty detective novel. Natasha Cooper is the pseudonym of the author of several successful historical novels. Published in the UK as Festering Lillies. .

New York:: Crown,, (1990.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to lower edge of dj). First printing. 'When Algernon Endelsham is found battered to death on Clapham Comon, the police are truly baffled. As the Minister of the Department of Old Age Pensions, Endelsham seemingly had no enemies, he was attractive, adventuresome, and loved by his coworkers--or was he?" First mystery featuring civil servant Wilhelmina "Willow" King who leads a double life - as a plain spinster with an analytical mind who has a safe position in the Department of Old Age Pension, and as an elegant and successful red-haired romance novelist, Cressida Woodruffe. 264 pp.

N.Y.: Crown, 1990. 1st American edition, so stated., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. In 2002 Wright / Cooper was Nominated for Library Dagger by CWA for an author whose body of work has given most pleasure. "Only one person knows that civil servant Wilhelmina "Willow" King, the rather dowdy, 38, and very clever lady who works part-time for the Department of Old Age Pension, leads quite a separate life as a coolly elegant and successful romance novelist. Investigation into the beating death of Willow's dashing boss on London's Clapham Common threatens to expose Willow's duplicity, so she decides to unmask the killer herself. Cooper handles Willow's dual roles most admirably; the conceit allows a nice dichotomy between two ways of life, two sets of characters, and two periods of time. Finely constructed and well orchestrated, and set off with careful, refined prose." -- Library… Read More