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Synopsis
Two ex-lovers, he merely getting old, she already slowly dying, hear a radio quiz programme about a scandal in which they were both involved at the time of the Suez Crisis. Some time later she asks him to tell her how he killed one of the other participants. He replies that he'd always imagined she had done it. Who then did?
Little by little they re-tread the maze of high politics, espionage and shady property deals and find the answer.
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'Peter Dickinson is a delight to read' Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
Born in Zambia, Peter Dickinson spent his childhood in Gloucestershire and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read English. Before writing full-time, he worked in various capacities on Punch Magazine, where he reviewed detective novels. His own first two detective novels, Skin Deep and A Pride of Heroes, set a still unsurpassed record by winning the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in successive years (1968 and 1969), and his 21 crime and mystery novels have been published in several languages. Peter Dickinson is also one of the UK's most acclaimed children's writers. He has twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award, as well as the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. He has been Chairman of the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2009. He lives in Hampshire, England.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 0586029044
- ISBN 13 9780586029046
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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SKIN DEEP
Seller: Fantastic Literature Limited, Rayleigh, ESSEX, United Kingdom
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Paperback. fine paperback, Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1969), CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction (1968) not 1st printing. An old man is brutally murdered in a Victorian terrace house in which there are dark rituals, a æhomosexualÆ relationship between a man and a woman, jungle drums in the night and a bowl full of human blood. Seller Inventory # FS21.234
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