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They Found Him Dead
by Heyer, Georgette
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1937). Hardcover. Gift inscription repeated on three pages, dated "Xmas 1937". Small 1" abrasion and 1/2" chip to corner of front free endpaper. Boards rubbed. Crease to spine. ; Third printing, June 1937 (in same year as the first printing). 312 pages + [3] pages advertisements. Blue cloth baords with gilt and black lettering on spine. Black ruled ornamental lines on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 192 x 126mm. Illustrated endpapers. A crime fiction novel. "Miss Allison thought that Silas Kane's sixtieth-birthday party was going off rather better than anyone had imagined it would." - the opening sentence. .
Synopsis
One heir after another turns up dead...Silas Kane's sixtieth birthday party is marred by argument and dissension amongst his family, and then the next morning, Kane is found dead. The coroner's verdict of death by misadventure would seem to confirm that Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog. But then his heir is shot, and threats are made against the next in line to inherit his fortune. The redoubtable Superintendent Hannasyde is called in to investigate. All clues point to an apparently innocuous eighty-year-old woman, but as the Inspector delves further into the case, he discovers that nothing is quite as it seems...PRAISE FOR THEY FOUND HIM DEAD:"Ranks alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey, and Allingham."San Francisco Chronicle"The author introduces us to enough lively and interesting people to make the book attractive even without its ingenious detective plot."The Times Literary Supplement"Miss Heyer's characters and dialogue are an abiding delight to me... I have seldom met people to whom I have taken so violent a fancy from the word 'Go'."Dorothy L. SayersMore Praise for Miss Heyer:"Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."Publishers Weekly"Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."Katie Forde
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18731
- Title
- They Found Him Dead
- Author
- Heyer, Georgette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1937)
- Keywords
- Fiction
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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