Trial By Murder
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When a seemingly unsolvable murder case throws a quiet community into turmoil, the truth proves far more sinister than anyone dared imagine — Trial by Murder is a tightly wound crime mystery that places its protagonist, Maria Lester, at the treacherous intersection of evidence, accusation, and deadly secrets. Grace Hoster constructs a world where circumstantial facts mislead and the hunt for a killer demands nerves of steel, as the net of suspicion draws tighter around those least expected to harbour guilt. Hoster's prose is methodical yet gripping, characteristic of the golden-age crime tradition, where the architecture of a mystery is built with meticulous care and dismantled with satisfying precision. Her narrative argues that justice is never a straightforward affair — that murder trials reveal as much about the living as they do about the dead. For readers who relish a cerebral whodunit steeped in atmospheric tension, Trial by Murder presents an irresistible puzzle whose final revelation is guaranteed to surprise.
Author: Grace Hoster
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd.
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When a seemingly unsolvable murder case throws a quiet community into turmoil, the truth proves far more sinister than anyone dared imagine — Trial by Murder is a tightly wound crime mystery that places its protagonist, Maria Lester, at the treacherous intersection of evidence, accusation, and deadly secrets. Grace Hoster constructs a world where circumstantial facts mislead and the hunt for a killer demands nerves of steel, as the net of suspicion draws tighter around those least expected to harbour guilt. Hoster's prose is methodical yet gripping, characteristic of the golden-age crime tradition, where the architecture of a mystery is built with meticulous care and dismantled with satisfying precision. Her narrative argues that justice is never a straightforward affair — that murder trials reveal as much about the living as they do about the dead. For readers who relish a cerebral whodunit steeped in atmospheric tension, Trial by Murder presents an irresistible puzzle whose final revelation is guaranteed to surprise.