Buy this book on-line LINSCOTT,GILLIAN: : Murder,I presumeLONDON.MacMILLAN,1990. ISBN 0333525477.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Colour,part illustrated dw/dj with minimal
shelf-wear and negligible creasing with no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges clean,contents pristine.Apple-green
paper-covered bds with bright,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and
immaculate,plain white eps.Small 8vo,9-219pp.
Linscott vividly recreates London and Africa at the height of Queen Victoria's empire, in a mystery with a difference.
Author's 6th novel.
Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of LINSCOTT,GILLIAN: : Murder,I presume. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. LINSCOTT**, GILLIAN: : Murder, I PresumeLONDON.MACMILLAN LONDON,LIMITED,1990. ISBN 0333525477.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[A title from the Macmillan Crime Case series.] Near MINT/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy partial colour photographic illustrated front panel with a black and red geometric design with white lettered author name+title,a white background to spine/backstrip with author's capitalised black-lettered name,capitalised white-lettered title to a non-faded,non-sunned vibrant red panel,and publisher's capitalised white-lettered name to a vibrant black panel respectively,rear panel with critics' black-lettered reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing - no major nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges unusually bright and clean without ageing/toning or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain pale sage-green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate unblemished plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-219pp [paginated] includes 21 chapters; plus [unpaginated] story synopsis, title page,a dedication,author's acknowledgements and to the rear,4pp blanks.
Author's 6th title and 2nd stand alone novel. See also my book ID rja1660 for another title, 'A Healthy Body' from same author,a historical Victorian murder mystery.
Visually the exterior appearance is outstandingly exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 30+ year-old age.It really is an exceptional and superb example for its cleanliness and brightness.
It is 1874,and fashionable London is flocking to pay its last respects to the late Dr Livingstone.Africa,with many of its riches and mysteries still unexplored,holds a potent magic and feelings run high.Two women,strongminded Maud Stretton and beautiful Cecilia Bright,meet and quarrel over Livingstone's coffin as their husbands prepare to lead rival expeditions back to Africa.Reputations are at stake,in a world where reputation means more than life itself.
But when death strikes it takes an unexpected form,not in Africa but on a rainy night in a Westminster mission hall.The victim,a notorious coward and disgraced explorer,claims to know something that would convict one of the rival expedition leaders of behaviour unbecoming an English gentleman.He dies on a public platform, seconds away from uttering his secret.The inquest jury's verdict is murder - and the poison that killed him came from Africa.
Gossip,then worse than gossip,threatens Maud,Cecilia and all around them.One man,Peter Pentland,has a particular reason for wanting to discover the truth - he promised both Stretton and Bright that he'd look after their wives.That promise takes him limping along more danferous paths than anything in Africa.
Gillian Linscott vividly recreates London and Africa at the height of Queen Victoria's empire,in a mystery with a difference.
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