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Grave Mistake
by Ngaio Marsh
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0006169031
- ISBN 13
- 9780006169031
- Seller
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Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1979. At first it looked as if Sybil Foster had intentionally left the world: with two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man, and - it later appeared - a debilitating disease, it was no wonder she took her own life. But no one thought she was the sort - especially Superintendent Roderick Alleyn. For the field was ripe with unfortunate engagements - one of them a very grave mistake..........Email for further details.. Not Signed or Inscribed. This IS a Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Not Illustrated. Mass Market Paperback. Mass Market Paperback.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfarm (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 565506
- Title
- Grave Mistake
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- Illustrator
- Not Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- This IS a Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0006169031
- ISBN 13
- 9780006169031
- Publisher
- Fontana/Collins
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- ENGLAND FICTION ALLEYN RODERICK FICTITIOUS CHARACTER MYSTERY DETECTIVE POLICE PROCEDURAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel; Crime Fiction;
- Size
- Mass Market Paperback
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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- Mass Market
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...