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LINSCOTT**, GILLIAN: : A HEALTHY BODY

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1985.

ISBN 0333364546.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated upper panel with b/w author photograph to rear panel of dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges,some very light creases to top and bottom edges and head+foot of spine/backstrip.Front inner flap dw/dj has a vertical crease.Fore-edges lightly aged as usual/normal; contents bright,tight and clean. Author's debut novel; a mixture of comedy and crime.See also my book ID rja1042523 for another title, 'Murder,I Presume' from same author, similar theme. 'Birdie' Linnet was in pursuit of his wife who had run off with a richer man and taken their daughter too.His vehicle was a bicycle,not ideal for chasing Ralph Shunner's Jaguar across France.Why had Shunner chosen a nudist package holiday for the first outing with his new 'family'? Birdie thought Shunner was 'a four star hotel merchant,if ever there was one'.A recent imbroglio had led Birdie to resign his position as a police officer.So he had lost both his job and his family at about the same time.He was full of anger,aggravated by the blistering heat of his bicycle ride under the French summer sun.The camp - the Villa ZOE (Zestful, Outgoing, Energised) - held many horrors in store,but the worst of them was a corpse in the sand dunes.And perhaps a tank full of seaweed wasn't the perfect place to hide it after all. Birdie's position became ever more precarious as a whole trainload of disasters gathered pace. Much diversion is provided by a grasping starlet called Melanie.Amusing dialogue and some occasional outright farce adorn an efficient plot that brings this first novel to a dramatic culmination. Please contact seller,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. ** 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. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

LINSCOTT, Gillian : A Healthy Body

Macmillan, 1984

Fine/Fine. First Edition. author's first book.