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Knots and Crosses
by Rankin, Ian
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0370310578
- ISBN 13
- 9780370310572
- Seller
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Bodley Head SIGNED by Author on the Title Page Hard Cover. The Scarce First edition, first printing and first U.K. Edition. SIGNED by author on the title page accompanied by the now famous noughts and crosses drawing. Near fine, with the lightest of page tanning about the edges, a minute tear and small nick at top end of dj spine, some rubbing, one short narrow scratch, and one tiny mark to rear flap, but still a very attractive copy in a clear Brodart mylar cover. Ian Rankin's first John Rebus novel and his second novel has become one of the most elusive titles in modern crime fiction. Rankin has succeeded in bringing to life the Edinburgh, Scotland that Rebus knows so well, as a living breathing character in this excellent series. A serial strangler is on the loose and Detective Sergeant Rebus has been receiving crank letters, matchstick crosses, and a small neatly tied knot. He's also been drinking too much, and to complicate things further, his wife and daughter have left him. A taut police procedural and puzzle that truly lives up to its reputation as a page turner from the premier writer in modern crime fiction.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
Knots and Crosses is a 1987 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the first of the Inspector Rebus novels. It was written while Rankin was a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. In the introduction to this novel, Rankin states that Rebus lives directly opposite the window in Marchmont that he looked out of while writing the book.
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- Bookseller
- Nothing Like A Good Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M171
- Title
- Knots and Crosses
- Author
- Rankin, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0370310578
- ISBN 13
- 9780370310572
- Publisher
- London, United Kingdom: Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Author R Mystery Signed 2011 New Arrivals EDINBURGH SCOTLAND FICTION REBUS INSPECTOR FICTITIOUS CHARACTER MYSTERY DETECTIVE POLICE PROCEDURAL TRADITIONAL BRITISH 0-370-31057-8
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Signed; Author R;
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