Service of All The Dead
by Dexter, Colin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, rare 1st edition, unclipped d/j, blue boards (some fading at edges), cocked spine but silver gilt titling bright; tex
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1979. 1st. hardback. Very good, rare 1st edition, unclipped d/j, blue boards (some fading at edges), cocked spine but silver gilt titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked; owner's neat stamp on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The fourth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution.Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's.Most people could still remember the churchwarden's murder. A few could still recall the murderer's suicide. Now even the police had closed the case.Until a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive . . .
Synopsis
Service of All the Dead is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the fourth novel in Inspector Morse series.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC113429
- Title
- Service of All The Dead
- Author
- Dexter, Colin
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, rare 1st edition, unclipped d/j, blue boards (some fading at edges), cocked spine but silver gilt titling bright; tex
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, detective, Oxford, Dexter
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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- Spine
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