A TASTE FOR DEATH
by JAMES, P. D
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039455583X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394555836
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About This Item
FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Knopf. HARDCOVER. 1986. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. AS NEW, bound in pearl gray and red with silver titles in white pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket illustration and design by Danny Pelavin. The return of Adam Dalgliesh. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on Front-Free Endpaper ~ P.D. James, 8 Nov. 1986 ~ . Signed by Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Synopsis
An Adam Dalgliesh MysteryTwo men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets.
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- Title
- A TASTE FOR DEATH
- Author
- JAMES, P. D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039455583X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394555836
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- SCENE OF THE CRIME
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- AUTHOR J~K~L; SIGNED ~ INSCRIBED;
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