THE WHISTLING SHADOW.
by Seeley, Mabel (1903-1991)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in light blue cloth boards in a fair only dust jacket. with significant edgewear, rubbing and creasing. Original price/light blue cloth boards in a fair only
- Seller
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About This Item
Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1954.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in light blue cloth boards in a fair only dust jacket. with significant edgewear, rubbing and creasing. Original price of 2.75 on flap. . First printing. The award-winning author's seventh and last suspense novel. Gail Kiskadden, a wealthy widow, depressed and lost after the death of her twenty year old son, John, he had been secretly married. She drives to Georgia to find the girl, who is pregnant, and brings her back to Minneapolis, only to discover that Sherry Lee's sordid past has followed her and her home, formerly her haven, has become a place of horror and danger. "Mystery writer Diana Killian notes that Seeley's protagonists were noteworthy as strong, independent women decades before modern feminism." 219 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88540
- Title
- THE WHISTLING SHADOW.
- Author
- Seeley, Mabel (1903-1991)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in light blue cloth boards in a fair only dust jacket. with significant edgewear, rubbing and creasing. Original price
- Jacket Condition
- light blue cloth boards in a fair only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY:
- Date Published
- 1954.
- Keywords
- minnesota setting, vintage mystery,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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