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MAY**, PETER: : THE NIGHT GATE. [Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.riverrun/QUERCUS EDITIONS LTD.,2021.

ISBN 9781529416176.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 10 - 1 descending. This signed First Edition hardback was published by Quercus under its Riverrun imprint and it's author SIGNED on a separate title sheet bound-in at the front of the book.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to a special title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, wrap-around,repeated colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj panels with embossed white+red letters (author+title),and other white lettering to front panel along with b/w adhesive SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR roundel,flat printed but similar red+ white coloured lettering to illustrated spine/ backstrip,rear panel also illustrated and with critics' white+red lettered reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – near pristine,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain black sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1 -486pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,33 chapters,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] SIGNED special title page,half-title+title pages,a dedication,a Pablo Picasso epigram and 2pp blanks at the rear. In a sleepy French village,the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree.A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occured more than seventy years apart.Asked by a colleague tio inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleaod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter.Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France,the other contemporary,set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the murders - the Mona Lisa.Tasked by the exiled General de Gaulle to keep the world's most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940,28-year-old Georgette Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history.Following in the wake of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa as it is moved from chateau to chateau,she finds herself just one step ahead of two German art experts sent to steal for rival patrons - Hitler and Gõring. What none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting safe,unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades. Events that have led to both killings,'The Night Gate' spans three generations taking us from war-torn London,the Outer Hebrides of Scotland,Berlin and Vichy France,to the deadly enemy facing the world in 2020.In his latest novel (then 2021), Peter May shows why he is one of the great contemporary writers of crime fiction. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - 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. ** N.B. 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 US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

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