New York: Soho Crime. As New in Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom of text block. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Brown boards with cream spine imprinted with the title and author in red. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 346 pages. A Joe Sandilands Investigation, No. 11. London, 1933: An amateur dowsing team searching the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a priceless coin in her mouth. The case falls on Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands, but he has another, very high-profile assignment. London is hosting a massive economic conference to address the global Depression, and political tensions run high as world leaders stand either with or against a rapidly militarizing Germany. Sandilands is to protect visiting American senator Cornelius Kingstone throughout the conference. But a when a series of bizarre coincidences links the riverbank body to the senator, Joe realizes that Kingstone is caught up in a dangerous game that might cost not just one but thousands of lives. .

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Barbara Cleverly was born in the north of England and is a graduate of Durham University. A former teacher, she has spent her working life in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk; she now lives in Cambridge. She has one son and five stepchildren. She is the author of nine books, including The Last Kashmiri Rose , Strange Images of Death , The Blood Royal , and Not My Blood . Her Joe Sandilands series, set against the background of the Indian Empire, was inspired by the contents of a battered old tin trunk that she found in her attic.

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Bookseller: Storbeck's (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 608977
Title: A Spider in the Cup
Author: Cleverly, Barbara
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 1616952881
ISBN 13: 9781616952884
Publisher: Soho Crime
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2013
Keywords: FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, TRADITIONAL BRITISH
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Mystery/Detective / Traditional British;

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