Death of a Perfect Mother [original UK title: Mother's Boys]
by Barnard, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1981). First American Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, no significant wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper, no other marks; the jacket is faintly edgeworn, with one tiny closed tear at the bottom of the rear panel]. "Lill Hodsden is a monster. She humiliates her husband, blackmails her lovers, browbeats her teen-aged daughter, and smothers her grown sons with a mother love that leaves them inwardly screaming for freedom. Vulgar and flashy herself, Lill has a way of zeroing in on everybody else's weaknesses and ridiculing them. She is just asking to be murdered." And she is, which leaves the police inspector in charge of the case with an unusual dilemma: "more suspects than he can handle." .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27626
- Title
- Death of a Perfect Mother [original UK title: Mother's Boys]
- Author
- Barnard, Robert
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Bill Tinker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dj
- Edition
- First American Edition Second Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1981)
- Keywords
- Mothers And Sons, Family Life, Mystery Fiction
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