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LEWIS**, ROY: : A SECRET DYING: AN ARNOLD LANDON NOVEL

LONDON.HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS,1992.

ISBN 0002324024.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.A title from the Collins Crime Club imprint/series.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic upper panel of dw/dj with white,pale blue and orange capitalised lettering,b/w lettered spine/backstrip with b/w Collins Crime Club b/w illustrated logo to head of same,white background with black lettered publisher's advert of assorted other author's published titles to rear panel.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - and no bumped corners.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled and minimally spotted,else clean,fore-edge bright and clean with miniscule marking/grubbing; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners, appears unread other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and similarly bright,crisp,blocked Crime Club logo at foot of same and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-220pp includes 5 chapters with varying numbers of sub-chapters within each,2pp blank,half-title with story precis,author's other published titles listed to verso,title page and to the rear 2pp blanks. Advised to leave the Planning Department as a disruptive influence,Arnold Landon found his new job in the Department of Antiquities and Museums got off to a difficult start: he had to write a brochure on the Northumberland pele towers for a colleague who had mysteriously disappeared.When he was also asked to help date a mediaeval painting which had been hidden under a false ceiling his problems increased,for he found both tasks were linked in some way to a double murder at Craster,on the north-eastern coast.The reappearance of his colleague,now suspected of the murder of his wife and her lover,and hints of occult practices,only drew Arnold further into a network of secrecy and death that involved ancient religious beliefs under the mantle of the Knights Templar. But the fourteenth-century past was to mingle with the murderous present once more before Arnold discovered the cryptic secret of the de Bohuns.And by that time the murderer had him entombed,and Arnold was in danger of his life. 7th Arnold Landon title,and quite uncommon.See also rja2161 for another following Landon novel/title. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite them,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. Please contact seller for correct 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.

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