Wrack and Rune (Peter Shandy Mysteries)
by Charlotte MacLeod
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/none - paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0380619113
- ISBN 13
- 9780380619115
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This book is in good condition, some wear to covers, some water stianing to top right edges of inner pages. Previous owner signed first inner page, no other markings. Spine intact, some creases. "A gruesome murder leads Professor Peter Shandy to uncover an ancient Viking curse.
When 105-year-old Hilda Horsefall tells young reporter Cronkite Swope of a stone carved with Norse runes that once sat in the nearby woods, the writer starts salivating at the thought of breaking the news that Vikings once marauded through their sleepy Massachusetts countryside. But while he's jotting down notes, a scream rings out, and Cronkite finds an even bigger story. A farmhand has been burned to death by quicklime, and Cronkite gets an exclusive scoop.
In this neck of New England, strange deaths are invariably referred to Professor Peter Shandy, the only local with the know-how to connect fearsome quicklime to the Vikings of old. But as he digs into the ancient mystery, he finds the forgotten Norse gods are not above demanding a modern sacrifice." Good Reads "Charlotte MacLeod, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, was the multi-award-winning author of over thirty acclaimed novels. Her series featuring detective Professor Peter Shandy, America's homegrown Hercule Poirot, delivers "generous dollops of...warmth, wit, and whimsy" (San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). But fully a dozen novels star her popular husband-and-wife team of Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn. And her native Canada provides a backdrop for the amusing Grub-and-Stakers cozies written under the pseudonym Alisa Craig and the almost-police procedurals starring Madoc Rhys, RCMP. A cofounder and past president of the American Crime Writers League, she also edited the bestselling anthologies Mistletoe Mysteries and Christmas Stalkings." Good Reads
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1010-2024
- Title
- Wrack and Rune (Peter Shandy Mysteries)
- Author
- Charlotte MacLeod
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- none - paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0380619113
- ISBN 13
- 9780380619115
- Publisher
- Avon Books (Mm)
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- December 1982
- Pages
- 207
- Size
- 17.3 cm x 10.5 cm
- Keywords
- Fiction, Mystery, Cozy
Terms of Sale
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