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Seller: Hopkins Books, Nashua, NH, U.S.A.Hopkins Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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First American hardcover edition, with dust jacket, published by St. Martins, 1993. The 17th Inspector Alvarez mystery. In this one he investigates the connection between a peeping Tom with a head injury and an accident victim with strange burns on his body. 175 pages, 6" X 8-1/4". Dust jacket is not price clipped. Jacket has some mild edge wear. Handwritten numbers on the first text page - '17 XVII 1993', though no further writing besides that. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy. Edges of the text block are clean and the binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory. We have several Jeffries titles listed.
Seller Inventory # 26-04344
- Title
- Murder Confounded
- Author
- Jeffries, Roderic
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312098774
- ISBN 13
- 9780312098773
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 0.283 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.54 centimeters width by 14.61 centimeters height by 21.59 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 17 of 37: Inspector Alvarez
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, Mystery
Faced with a stubborn Englishman who adamantly refuses all offers of police protection, Alvarez is almost convinced to let the matter drop - until a local peeping Tom is assaulted outside Gore's home. Villagers are quick to imprison a wandering gypsy for the attack, but Alvarez understands the ways of rural prejudice, and knows how locals can repeat - and whole-heartedly believe - falsehoods, without lying. Alvarez is convinced that the wrong man is in jail, and that Gore is still in danger, but everyone else on the force is content to believe the locals. Alas, as the old Mallorcan saying goes, a fool is far too foolish to understand a wise man, but a wise man is far too wise to understand a fool. Which, Alvarez wonders, am l?
Alvarez's investigation eventually takes him to England and back in pursuit of a man's secret identity and an organization of terrorists. But perhaps the Inspector is allowing complex assassination plots to blind him to a very simple motive for murder....
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About the Author
Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and was educated at Southampton’s School of Navigation. In 1943 he went to sea with the New Zealand Shipping Company and returned to England in 1949 where he was subsequently called to the Bar. He practised law for a short period before starting to write full time in the fifties. His books have been published in many different countries and have been adapted for film, TV and radio.
He and his wife live in Mallorca. They have two children.
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Hopkins Books specializes in 20th Century genre fiction, Art History, and classic literary Fiction.
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