London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first novel, introducing Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector Brock. Jacket illustration by Barbara Bellingham.

A small puncture at the rear spine fold of the jacket (affecting the book), else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

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When one of three elderly sisters, great-granddaughters of Karl Marx, is found dead in her Jerusalem Lane house, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector Brock investigate. An atmospheric police procedural-the first in the acclaimed Brock and Kolla mysteries.Jerusalem Lane is a little piece of Dickensian London untouched by development, its inhabitants mainly refugees from pre-war central Europe. But could elderly Meredith Winterbottom really have been killed for the politics of another age?As Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector Brock delve into the lane's eccentric melting pot, past and present interlink in unexpected ways. What connects Mrs. Rosenfeldt and Adam Kowalski to a smooth property developer and an American academic? And what is Meredith's son Terry up to? Not to mention the dottily Marxist sisters... Is this a recipe for murder?

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Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 127920
Title: The Marx Sisters (First UK Edition)
Author: Barry Maitland
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 024100215X
ISBN 13: 9780241002155
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1994
Keywords: Mystery and Crime
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery and Crime;

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