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The Shape of Snakes.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

by WALTERS**, MINETTE:

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ISBN 10
0333748603
ISBN 13
9780333748602
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/VG.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with some minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners and head of spine/ backstrip.A small closed tear,no loss,to upper wrap's top,right-hand corner.Top+fore-edges bright and generally clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-379pp [paginated] includes 28 chapters and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,b/w street map,10pp blanks at rear. November 1978.The winter of discontent. Britain is on strike.The dead lie unburied,rubbish piles in the streets - and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter.She was known as 'Mad Annie' and was despised by her neighbours. Her passing would have gone unmourned and unnoticed but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - apparently against reason - that Annie was murdered. But whatever the truth about Annie - whether she was as mad as her neighbours claimed,whether she lived in squalor as the police said,whether she cruelly mistreated the cats found starving in her house - something passed between her and Mrs Ranelagh in the moment of death which binds this one woman to her cause for the next twenty years. But why is Mrs Ranelagh so convinced it was murder,when by her own account Annie died without speaking? Why does the subject make her husband so angry that he refuses to talk about what happened that night? And why would any woman spend twenty painstaking years uncovering the truth - unless her reasons are personal . . . .? Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** US/Canada customers,please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Synopsis

Minette Walters is the author of 11 novels, 2 novellas, and a number of short stories. Her work, which has received several major awards, has been published in more than thirty-five countries, and has been adapted for television to critical acclaim.

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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja422312
Title
The Shape of Snakes.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]
Author
WALTERS**, MINETTE:
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
VG.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0333748603
ISBN 13
9780333748602
Publisher
LONDON.MACMILLAN,2000.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
2000
Keywords
q52.SIGNED.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.ISBN 0333748603.Crime_detective novel_fiction.The Ice House.The Sculptress.The Scold's Bridle.The Dark Room.The Echo.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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