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The Old Silent
by Grimes, Martha
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316323187
- ISBN 13
- 9780316323185
- Seller
-
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing, hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the title page.Slight bump to heel of spine, still a tight fine copy in a fine unflawed dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover. Appears to be unread and with no remainder marks.
Synopsis
Feeling burned out, Jury takes an unplanned stopover in Yorkshire and books a room at a cozy inn called the Old Silent. Violence finds him anyway when he becomes the only witness to a murder. Though Nell Healey shot her husband in cold blood, Jury will go to any lengths to help her, including taking sick leave from Scotland Yard to investigate. Calling on his old friend Melrose Plant for help, he must break through Nell’s reticence to untangle a web of twisted motives—and twisted lives....
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Again, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5088
- Title
- The Old Silent
- Author
- Grimes, Martha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316323187
- ISBN 13
- 9780316323185
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1989
Terms of Sale
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All purchases can be returned within 10 days with prior notification. Buyer pays for return shipping costs unless we have made a mistake with the order.
About the Seller
Books Again, Inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Atlanta, Georgia
About Books Again, Inc.
We are an open book store with 30,000, mostly hardcover books in stock. Our hours are 10-6 EST and we are located in downtown Decatur, Georgia which is 6 miles east of Atlanta.
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- Remainder
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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