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THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS
by Dexter, Colin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0517594447
- ISBN 13
- 9780517594445
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1992. First American Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), yellow quarter cloth with irridescent green lettering over dark green textured boards, illustrated with map of Blenheim Palace grounds & double-spread map of Wytham Woods, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with small panel depicting Inspector Morse's famous red Jaguar in a wet forest, [xx] + 296 pages. Winner of the GOLD DAGGER AWARD for BEST CRIME NOVEL of the Year. " A whodunit sufficiently devious in design and cunning in execution to keep the most restless mind tied up in knots."--New York Times Book Review Colin Dexter OBE (1930 - 2017) was an English crime writer known for his Detective Chief Inspector Morse (with Sergeant Lewis) series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, Inspector Morse, from 1987 to 2000. His characters have spawned a sequel series, Lewis (about Morse's Sergeant), and a prequel series, Endeavour. Dexter twice won the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger--one of them for THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS--and twice Silver Daggers, plus a Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in 1997.--Wikipedia adapted SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally.
Synopsis
The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse series. The novel received Gold Dagger Award in 1992.
Reviews
On Mar 5 2015, The Old Library Bookshop said:
Midway through this book, I nearly called it quits because I remembered who dunnit. It finally dawned on me that I had seen this Inspector Morse mystery--probably two or three times--on my local PBS channel. But although I knew the who, I couldn't exactly recall the why or how, so on I plowed. I had originally picked up this book to see if Dexter's portrait of Morse and his junior partner Lewis squared with the characters as portrayed by John Thaw and Kevin Whateley. I was not disappointed. It was like a reunion with old friends as I followed Morse from a fortnight's vacation through a thoughtful assessment of the clues regarding a beautiful Swedish girl who had gone missing in the Oxford area the previous year. I found myself marveling at Dexter's ability to provide both subtle clues to the solving of the mystery alongside clever red herrings. I realized, too, what a skillful job Thaw and Whateley had done in faithful recreating the solitary, beer swilling, crossword genius Morse and his sweet-natured, Morse-respecting sidekick Lewis, as well as familiar minor characters such as Morse’s boss, Strange, and the pathologist, Dr. Laura Hobson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2769
- Title
- THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS
- Author
- Dexter, Colin
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517594447
- ISBN 13
- 9780517594445
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- LCCN
- 92040762
- Keywords
- Britain, Inspector, murder, detective, Blenheim, Morse,
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About the Seller
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