the houdini girl.
by BEDFORD**, MARTYN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0670879649
- ISBN 13
- 9780670879649
- Seller
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About This Item
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges;light creases to head+foot of spine/backstrip,with the two bottom corners lightly bumped also.Fore-edges clean,as are contents.Colour photographic wrap round dw/dj.Blue-green paper-covered boards with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain yellow endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 310pp.
Fletcher Brandon - nicknamed 'Red' - is a professional magician,and a good one.He has taught himself dexterity and ambidexterity; he has mastered the art of illusion.And he enjoys the thought that he has beguiled Rosa - dark hair,blue eyes,wicked combination - into falling for him.Then one evening after a successful show in Bradford where he performed his great Zigzag illusion - two large blades apparently being thrust into the body of The Lovely Kim - Red is told that Rosa is dead; fallen bizarrely to her death from a train.Red is grief-stricken - but dumbstruck,too,because he has no idea what she was doing on a train leaving Oxford on a Friday afternoon when she should have been at work.The arrival through the post of an anonymous parcel containing a few of her belongings sets him off on a trail of investigation and discovery; into Rosa's past,but also into the nature of their relationship. Red is a magician, a dealer in tricks and illusions;now he has to unscramble the real from the unreal in himself and in his life.A vivid, sometimes shocking novel that investigates eternally puzzling and painful questions about the nature of fidelity and betrayal.Author's third novel, his debut being 'Acts of Revision.'See my book IDs' rja1159 and rja1337 for UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edns. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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Synopsis
The protagonist, British magician Fletcher "Red" Brandon finds the girl of his dreams,the witty,beguiling Rosa Kelly, a beautiful,independent,combative, fiery young Irish woman. After stealing his heart, she is suddenly killed, setting Red off on an obsessive chase to determine the cause of her death. In doing so, he discovers that she may not have been who he thought she was...
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja1593
- Title
- the houdini girl.
- Author
- BEDFORD**, MARTYN:
- Format/Binding
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670879649
- ISBN 13
- 9780670879649
- Publisher
- LONDON.VIKING,1998.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1998
- Keywords
- q52.MODERN FIRSTS.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0670879649.MODERN FICTION.ACTS OF REVISION.HOUDINI.Books new,used,signed,rare.
- Bookseller catalogs
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