Died in the wool
by MARSH, NGAIO
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
collins london [nd]. [first n.z. edition] 249pp VG (green cloth, sl rubbed and soiled w. sl bumps and mod wear to extrems, sl stains and minor surface loss to front board, spine mod cocked, sl foxing to prelims and edges, owners signiture to front pastedown, text binding sl cracked) lacks d/w
Synopsis
Died in the Wool is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1945. The novel concerns the murder of a New Zealand parliamentarian on a remote sheep farm, said to be located near Mount Cook. Like the previous novel in the series the story takes place during World War II with Alleyn doing counterespionage work.
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- Title
- Died in the wool
- Author
- MARSH, NGAIO
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- collins london [nd]
- Keywords
- modern first edition crime mystery fiction marsh ngaio
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