The Christmas Egg
by Mary Kelly
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-370. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Michael Joseph, London, UK. 1965. 205 pgs. Reprint. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In a gloomy flat off Islington High Street, Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find an old woman dead. The Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution, has lived in terror of being discovered ever since. Olga's grandson, Ivan, appears to have run from the scene, but is later seen returning to the flat as though oblivious to the terrible crime. Taking place between 22nd and 24th December, Nightingale's enquiry takes him across London, culminating in the wrapping of the mystery on Christmas Eve. This never-before-republished novel from 1958 has a noticeably different feel to the neat puzzles and country house mysteries of crime fiction's golden age, revealing the darker side of police detection in an evocative urban setting. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68515
- Title
- The Christmas Egg
- Author
- Mary Kelly
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Place of Publication
- E-370
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.