HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: St. Martins Press.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine with very slight lean. No bumps or rubs, some label remains to front cover. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing chalet in the snow at night. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of $20.95. Minimal shelf wear to covers. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top edge grubby, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: B/w decorated title page & small designs to chapter headings.* Pages: 229 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Jeremy Ransom, is a homicide detective with the Chicago Police Department. He has decided to take a vacation for the holidays ? not for himself, of course, but for his friend and partner-in-sleuthing Emily Charters, who is still recovering from open-heart surgery. Emily, whom Ransom regards as his ?unofficial grandmother,? agrees to go away with him to a picturesque Michegan guest-house for the Christmas holidays only because she feels he needs the vacation himself. But no-one has counted on the troubled history of the guest-house. Two years ago there was a brutal murder ~ the co-owner was killed but the body was never found. Ransom and Charters are the first guests in the newly re-opened establishment and they set in motion a terrible string of events which may lead again to murder.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. FNL. with NO MAJOR FAULTS.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5722
Title: Ransom for a Holiday
Author: Hunter, Fred
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG++/VG++
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0312169760
ISBN 13: 9780312169763
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Place of Publication: New York USA 224
Date Published: 1997-12-01
Bookseller catalogs: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
Size: 21.8 x 14.8 x 2.7 cm

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