The Gooseberry Fool
by MCCLURE, James
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Third book in the Kramer and Zondi series- "Christmas has always been a bad time of year for Kramer...and Christmas in a heat wave is close to intolerable- how much worse it can be is soon apparent after Hugo Swart, inoffensive bachelor and pillar of his parish church, is found brutally murdered." (from the dustjacket); HUBIN, p.266.
Synopsis
James McClure (1939-2006) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he worked as a photographer and then a teacher before becoming a crime reporter. He published eight wildly successful books in the Kramer and Zondi series during his lifetime. The first two books in the series, The Steam Pig and The Caterpillar Cop, are available in paperback from Soho Crime.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53950
- Title
- The Gooseberry Fool
- Author
- MCCLURE, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Africa; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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