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Report for Murder
by McDermid, Val
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312038887
- ISBN 13
- 9780312038885
- Seller
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About This Item
St Martins Pr, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($16.95 price intact). Published by St. Martin's Press, 1987. Octavo. Black boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear. A nice copy of Val McDermid's first published novel. 196 pages. ISBN: 0312038887. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Synopsis
First in the popular series featuring Lindsay Gordon, a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist' with a penchant for hanging around police interrogation rooms under suspicion of some crime or other.Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string minutes before she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder.Who would have wanted Lorna Smith Cooper dead? Who had the key to the locked room in which her body was found? And who could have slipped out of the hall at just the right time to commit this calculated and cold-blooded crime?
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89181
- Title
- Report for Murder
- Author
- McDermid, Val
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312038887
- ISBN 13
- 9780312038885
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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