Sidetracked (Kurt Wallender Mystery) by Henning Mankell - July 2000

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Very Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harvill, 2000. 1st UK edition. Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame.. Hardback. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper.

London, United Kingdom: Harvill Press, 2000. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Tall octavo. Black endpapers. 421pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is also as new; the original price (16.99) is intact. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...<big>K</big>urt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset… Read More

UK: Harvill Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in likewise fine dustwrapper. The second Kurt Wallander adventure from this talented writer to be translated into English. Very small hardcover edition of roughly 1,000 copies. CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel. Also Won Best Crime Novel Of The Year Award in Sweden and France's Prix Mystere de la Critque.