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A Cold Treachery
by Todd, Charles
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine+/No Jacket (as issued)
- ISBN 10
- 0553803492
- ISBN 13
- 9780553803495
- Seller
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dallas, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2005. First Edition/First Printing . Trade Paperback. Near Fine+/No Jacket (as issued).
Synopsis
Charles Todd returns to the world of Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge in a series that the New York Times Book Review called "harrowing psychological drama" and the Washington Post Book World hailed as "among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days." This time the embattled Inspector has met his match hunting a brutal killer across a frozen hell and the one witness who may have survived a crime of...A COLD TREACHERY"You'll hang for this--see if you don't! That's my revenge! And you'll think about that when the rope goes around your neck and the black hood comes down...." Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself confronted with one of the most savage murders he has ever encountered. Rutledge might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields, where he'd lost much of his soul--and his sanity--but not in an otherwise peaceful farm kitchen in remote Urskdale.Someone has murdered the Elcott family at their table without the least sign of struggle. Was the killer someone the young family knew and trusted? When the victims are tallied the local police are in for another shock: One of the Elcotts' children, a boy named Josh, is missing.Now the Inspector must race to uncover a murderer and to save a child before he's silenced by the merciless elements--or the even colder hands of a killer. Haunted and goaded by the soldier-ghost of his own tortured war past, Rutledge will discover the tragedy of war that splintered one marriage--and pulled together another. Love, jealousy, greed, revenge--or was it some twisted combination of all of them? Any one could lead a man or woman to murder. What had the Elcotts done to ignite their killer's rage? With time running out, Rutledge knows all too well that such a cold-blooded murderer could be hiding somewhere in the blinding snow...preparing to strike again.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Craig Hokenson Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18752
- Title
- A Cold Treachery
- Author
- Todd, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553803492
- ISBN 13
- 9780553803495
- Publisher
- Bantam Dell Pub Group
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Advance Reading Copies and Uncorrected P;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Craig Hokenson Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
dallas, Texas
About Craig Hokenson Bookseller
I am internet based, and participate in several book shows a year. Visitors welcome by appointment. I specialize in modern first editions, but offer a wide range of books. I have been buying and selling books for 20 years. I buy books, and will certainly consider trades. Member of the Texas Booksellers Association.
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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...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
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