Light Thickens
by Marsh, Ngaio
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0002314770
- ISBN 13
- 9780002314770
- Seller
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Buxton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins Crime, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tight Firm Clean Read Copy - First Edition (Collins Crime Club) - No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Not Illustrated. Pages Are Age Tanned. Red Cloth Hard Cover With Gold Gilt Titles On Spine - Slight Edge Wear And Cocking Of Spine. Unclipped Jacket With Slight Edge Wear..
Synopsis
Light Thickens is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirty-second, and final, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1982. The plot concerns the murder of the lead actor in a production of Macbeth in London, and the novel takes its title from a line in the play. A number of characters in the book appeared previously in Marsh's novel Death at the Dolphin.
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Details
- Bookseller
- M and P Books PBFA member (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008485
- Title
- Light Thickens
- Author
- Marsh, Ngaio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002314770
- ISBN 13
- 9780002314770
- Publisher
- Collins Crime
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Crime Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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M and P Books PBFA member
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Buxton, Derbyshire
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