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GRAVE MISTAKE.
by Marsh, Ngaio (1895 - 1982)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in red boards with gilt lettering on spine in a very near fine dust jacket (dj is folded slightly off-center) - uncommon in/red boards with gilt lettering on spine in a very near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316546712
- ISBN 13
- 9780316546713
- Seller
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About This Item
London:: Collins / The Crime Club,, (1978). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in red boards with gilt lettering on spine in a very near fine dust jacket (dj is folded slightly off-center) - uncommon in this condition.. First printing. Mystery set in a small English village by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction Features Superintendent Roderick Alleyn and his assistant Fox. 278 pp.
Synopsis
Grave Mistake is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirtieth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1978. The plot concerns the murder of an elderly widow in a nursing home, and involves a rare, and famous, postage stamp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- GRAVE MISTAKE.
- Author
- Marsh, Ngaio (1895 - 1982)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in red boards with gilt lettering on spine in a very near fine dust jacket (dj is folded slightly off-center) - uncommon in
- Jacket Condition
- red boards with gilt lettering on spine in a very near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316546712
- ISBN 13
- 9780316546713
- Publisher
- Collins / The Crime Club,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- (1978)
- Keywords
- golden age, detective fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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