KEEPER AT THE SHRINE
Language: English
Published by St Martins Press, N.Y., 1995
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.MURDER BY THE BOOK
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Condition: Used - Fine
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1st US edition, May 1995, so stated. with full number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Fine in dust jacket. 498 pages. On a freezing night in December 1180, a sudden storm of sinister and devastating power strikes the town of Beverley in the see of York. At the tempest's height a mysterious hooded figure brings a newborn child for baptism to the great Minster Church while a crippled priest is healed of his affliction and made youn g Peter's guardian by the time the figure vanishes. An elderly priest is struck down from behind, a young boy hangs himself in shame, and the sacred shrine of St. John of Beverly is left exposed to the diverse greeds, desires, and failings of common men.
Seller Inventory # 016870
- Title
- KEEPER AT THE SHRINE
- Author
- Highsmith, Domini
- Publisher
- St Martins Press, N.Y.
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 031213102X
- ISBN 13
- 9780312131029
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Clergy, Historical, Mystery and Crime, XBX 13
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MURDER BY THE BOOK
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