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JAMES**, P. D: : THE MURDER ROOM. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

LONDON.FABER & FABER,2003.

ISBN 0571218210.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,colour photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with white+silver gilt lettering; with some minimal creasing to top+bottom edges of rear panel of dw/dj; top edge with a tiny closed tear on top egde near the rear corner.Top edge clean,apart from some minimal,light sporadic foxing/spotting, fore-edges brighter; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,maroon paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked cream ink letters to spine/backstrip,red+yellow headband and immaculate plain,pale yellow endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,3-371pp [paginated] includes Books 1-4; plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title-page,dedication,poetry extract (T.S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton) contents list/table,author's note,and Books' separator pages. When Commander Dalgleish is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne,a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath,he can have no idea that he will return to it one weel later under very different circumstances.One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered and Dalgleish and his team are called in to investigate a death which from the first is fraught with complications.Even before the murder,the museum was in tumult.A new lease was due to be signed and two of the trustees were determined to keep the museum open,the third passionately determined on its closure. The museum is dedicated to the years 1919-1939 and one of the galleries,the Murder Room,displays exhibits from the most notorious cases of those inter-war years. And now a modern killer is at work,the crimes uncannily echoing the cases on display.All the small group of people,the trustees,staff and volunteers,who work in the Dupayne,have the means and the opportunity for murder.One of them has the ruthlessness to kill and kill again. P.D. James once again demonstrates the truth of Orwell's saying that murder,the unique crime,should arise only from strong emotions.No one handles them with more authority and sensitivity.This new novel (then 2003) has all the qualities which readers of P.D. James have come to value: psychological and emotional richness of characterisation,a keen sense of place and a credible and exciting mystery.'The Murder Room' is a worthy successor to the acclaimed 'Death in Holy Orders'. 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Author's signature - without dedication.

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