Murder Room
by James, P.D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0676976158
- ISBN 13
- 9780676976151
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Knopf Canada. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0676976158 . Pink hardcovers / gilt titles to the spine. First Edition, First Printing (number line) . Tightly bound with a bright unmarked text, bumping to the spine ends. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper. The DJ is unclipped with light tanning to the spine and a small stain to the cover inside top edge. "When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later under very different circumstances. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a death which, from the first, is fraught with complications." ; 9.40 X 6.20 X 1.60 inches; 371 pages .
Synopsis
P. D. James is the author of 17 previous books, most of which have been filmed for television. Before her retirement in 1979, she served in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Great Britain’s Home Office, and she has been a magistrate and a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many prizes and honours, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. In 2000 she celebrated her 80th birthday and published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest . From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16796
- Title
- Murder Room
- Author
- James, P.D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0676976158
- ISBN 13
- 9780676976151
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- 0676976158
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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