Death of a Literary Widow [original UK title: Posthumous Papers]
by Barnard, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1980 (c.1979). First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, very minor wear to book, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; jacket shows only light surface wear, one itsy-bitsy closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel, some vertical creasing/scrunch along edge of front flap]. "When novelist Walter Machin goes to his eternal reward, he leaves behind his widow and his ex-wife who ever-so-politely share his house, his manuscripts, and the fond (or otherwise) memories of life as the first and second Mrs. Machins." Then Machin's posthumous literary reputation booms, the prospect of new profits from old manuscripts looms, and an ambitious biographer comes out of the woodwork -- all of which gets terribly complicated when one of the ladies "succumbs to a timely accident [and] there is just the slightest suggestion that she might have been assisted to her demise." .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27628
- Title
- Death of a Literary Widow [original UK title: Posthumous Papers]
- Author
- Barnard, Robert
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Bill Tinker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980 (c.1979)
- Keywords
- Writers, Literary Estates, Widows, Mystery Fiction
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