Spinsters in Jeopardy
by Ngaio Marsh
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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Synopsis
Spinsters in Jeopardy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the seventeenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1954. The novel takes place in the countryside of France, where Alleyn is vacationing with Agatha Troy, now his wife, and their son Ricky; it concerns an unusual and sinister plot which is perpetrated against traveling spinsters. The novel was published as The Bride of Death in the United States in 1955.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Spinsters in Jeopardy
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- FICTION
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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