WYCLIFFE & THE QUIET VIRGIN by W. J. BURLEY - 1986

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket; Ex library copy with usual stamps and . marks inside. ; Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. DJ . protected by clear library sleeve.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library . First Printing; 192 pages; Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to stay with a Penzance lawyer and his family. When he arrives the weather is awful, the house miles from anywhere, and the family less than welcoming. Then a young girl goes missing and he soon finds himself caught up in a major criminal investigation. ; 057503792X .

London: Victor Gollancz, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, spine ends rubbed, otherwise VG in VG priceclipped dustjacket

Gollancz, January 1986. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First UK Edition. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

London: UK: Victor Gollancz, LTD, 1986. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "On Christmas Eve, after appearing in the parish play as the Virgin Mary, Francine Lemarque disappears. Fortunately, Chief Supt. of Scotland Yard Charles Wycliffe is in the audience as a holiday guest of the Bishop family, local aristocrats. When he decides to help find the girl, he instead discovers her mother dead and her father (recently released from prison) missing. When Francine returns and her father turns up dead, suspicion is thrown on a wide range of characters. Is the murderer the neighborhood artist, who's been sleeping with half the women in town? Or the ambitious M.P. married into the aristocracy? Or perhaps Wycliffe's friend, a bachelor lawyer who collects flies as a hobby? Burley does a fine job of bringing Wycliffe to life, and flashes of beauty occasionally pierce his descriptions of the Cornish countryside and coast, the setting for this… Read More

London: Gollancz. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 057503792X . Only slight wear to dust jacket, previous owner's sticker at top of front free end paper. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 192 pages; "Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to stay with a Penzance lawyer and his family, but when he arrives the weather is awful, the house miles from anywhere, and the family less than welcoming." .

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 191pp. .