Death In View
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
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Tape residue on inside of jacket & FEP.
When eight guests gather at Caroline Ashe's dinner party for what promises to be a civilised evening, none could suspect that by its end, one of them would be dead — and every one of the survivors a suspect. Death in View is a classic British whodunit by Travis Macrae, set against the claustrophobic intimacy of a social gathering where pleasantries mask dark secrets, jealousy simmers beneath polished manners, and the killer is hidden in plain sight. The guests know each other far too well — they know who was straying, whose money was at stake, and exactly who had the motive, means, and opportunity to silence one of their own. Macrae constructs the mystery with the precision of a chess player, doling out clues and red herrings in equal measure, while steadily tightening the tension with each chapter. Published by the distinguished London house of Hammond, Hammond & Company, Death in View sits comfortably within the golden tradition of the closed-circle mystery — a genre that demands both an observant detective and an equally alert reader. For those who relish an intricate puzzle wrapped in mid-century atmosphere and cool, understated menace, the truth, when it finally arrives, will be as surprising as it is inevitable.
Author: Travis Macrae
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Hammond, Hammond & Company
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Tape residue on inside of jacket & FEP.
When eight guests gather at Caroline Ashe's dinner party for what promises to be a civilised evening, none could suspect that by its end, one of them would be dead — and every one of the survivors a suspect. Death in View is a classic British whodunit by Travis Macrae, set against the claustrophobic intimacy of a social gathering where pleasantries mask dark secrets, jealousy simmers beneath polished manners, and the killer is hidden in plain sight. The guests know each other far too well — they know who was straying, whose money was at stake, and exactly who had the motive, means, and opportunity to silence one of their own. Macrae constructs the mystery with the precision of a chess player, doling out clues and red herrings in equal measure, while steadily tightening the tension with each chapter. Published by the distinguished London house of Hammond, Hammond & Company, Death in View sits comfortably within the golden tradition of the closed-circle mystery — a genre that demands both an observant detective and an equally alert reader. For those who relish an intricate puzzle wrapped in mid-century atmosphere and cool, understated menace, the truth, when it finally arrives, will be as surprising as it is inevitable.