Fall of Man in Wilmslow (Signed)

Lagercrantz, David

ISBN 10: 0857059890 / ISBN 13: 9780857059895

Published by MacLehose Press, London, 2015

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SIGNED, DATED, FIRST UK EDITION (complete number line to 1) London, MacLehose Press, 2015. NEW, Unread. Signed and Dated ("14/4 - 15") by the Author directly on the Title Page no inscription. Dust Jacket Fine in Brodart cover, no wear, no tears, not price clipped (£18.99). Maroon Cloth Boards Fine, no wear, no bumps. See photos of this copy on this page. Text Clean, no marks. Binding Tight and Square. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with USPS Tracking from Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed. Signed, First British Edition, First Printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fall of Man in Wilmslow (Signed)
• Publisher: MacLehose Press, London
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857059890
• ISBN 13: 9780857059895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fall
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple.

Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it's a suicide, he is nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turing's war record. What is more, Turing's sexuality appears to be causing alarm among the intelligence services - could he have been blackmailed by Soviet spies?

Stumbling across evidence of Turing's genius, and sensing an escape from a narrow life, Corell soon becomes captivated by Turing's brilliant and revolutionary work, and begins to dig deeper.

But in the paranoid, febrile atmosphere of the Cold War, loose cannons cannot be tolerated. As his innocent curiosity fast takes him far out of his depth, Corell realises he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge.

About the Authors

David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, and is an acclaimed author and journalist. In 2015 The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015), his continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, became a worldwide bestseller and was made into a film by Sony Pictures (2018). He is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Fall of Man in Wilmslow, and the fifth and sixth books in the Millennium series, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017) and The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019). Dark Music, the first Rekke and Vargas Investigation, will be published in the UK in 2022.

George Goulding was born in Stockholm, educated in England, and spent his legal career working for a London-based law firm. He is now a translator of Swedish literature into English, including David Lagercrantz's continuations of the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson.