Alcorn Afred (2 results)
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Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.MURDER BY THE BOOK
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Ist Edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Aademic Setting. "A college dean's cannibalistic murder symbolizes a college administration's attempt to assume control of a closely allied museum?or so thinks n…arrator Norman de Ratour, recording secretary of Seaboard's Museum of Man for 30 years. Finding himself a suspect in the murder, Norman seeks to lay blame elsewhere; he would dearly love to implicate the new museum administrator, a boorish, slovenly incompetent. The narrator's arch tone and arid humor will provide solid entertainment for lovers of psychological mystery from Alcorn" Library Review (Since Alcorn runs the travel program at the Museum of Cultural and Natural History at Harvard, we might assume that the Museum of Man shares some fictional turf with Alcorn's real place of employment.). Book.
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- First Edition
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Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.MURDER BY THE BOOK
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Ist Edition - Fine in dj. Aademic Setting, SIGNED Copy "A college dean's cannibalistic murder symbolizes a college administration's attempt to assume control of a closely allied museum?or so thinks narrator Norman de Ratour, recording secretary of Seaboard'…s Museum of Man for 30 years. Finding himself a suspect in the murder, Norman seeks to lay blame elsewhere; he would dearly love to implicate the new museum administrator, a boorish, slovenly incompetent. The narrator's arch tone and arid humor will provide solid entertainment for lovers of psychological mystery from Alcorn" Library Review (Since Alcorn runs the travel program at the Museum of Cultural and Natural History at Harvard, we might assume that the Museum of Man shares some fictional turf with Alcorn's real place of employment.). Signed by Author.
