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The Winter Queen (An Erast Fandorin mystery)
by Akunin, Boris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0297829742
- ISBN 13
- 9780297829744
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth library binding, No title to spine. No Bumps or Rubs, VG* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED in clear plastic library cover, showing shelf price of £ 9.99, some very minor shelf wear. VG+* Contents condition: Ex-Library with usual neat stamps & labels, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No other inscriptions or annotations, small mark and slight tanning to top edge and fore edge. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 249 pp. text. No Index at rear.* Description:- The year is 1876 and the setting Moscow. A law student aged 23 commits suicide in the Alexander Gardens, having accosted a young woman who turns on him, whereupon he shoots himself, having spun the revolver's chambers first in a form of Russian roulette. Erast Fandorin, a clever young detective, is assigned to the case and discovers that the young man who shot himself was the son of an influential industrialist. Fandorin's investigation leads him to Berlin and St Petersburg as he unravels a major conspiracy. The first in a multi-book series, this is a gripping crime story with an authentic background. A nice clean ex-library copy in a library jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3661
- Title
- The Winter Queen (An Erast Fandorin mystery)
- Author
- Akunin, Boris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0297829742
- ISBN 13
- 9780297829744
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 256
- Date Published
- 2003-05-01
- Size
- 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
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