An Instrument of Slaughter
by Marston, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0749009950
- ISBN 13
- 9780749009953
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Allison & Busby. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Black endpapers. Stated First Edition . 351 pages. A Home Front Detective Mystery, No. 2. 1916. Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case when the body of a young conscientious objector is found bludgeoned to death. Public sympathy is lukewarm for conscientious objectors with some people even claim that a conchie deserves to die if he wont fight for his King and Country. As the detectives identify one suspect, others pop up in the most unexpected places. Everyone speaks well of Ablatt but is he really the saint they describe? Marmion and Keedy have to dig deep in order to unearth the instrument of slaughter and the person who wielded it. Marston has legions of fans for his Railway Detective series, among others, and they are sure to find the rich historical period of WW1 London very much to their taste. .
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 607457
- Title
- An Instrument of Slaughter
- Author
- Marston, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0749009950
- ISBN 13
- 9780749009953
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, HISTORICAL, WORLD WAR, 1914-1918
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective;
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- Fine
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