Death Of A Dwarf
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: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - some marks; bumped corners. Binding - tight. DJ - chipped with major loss on rear panel.
A well-constructed English village detective novel, "Death of a Dwarf" opens with the late-night discovery of an unidentified dwarf's body on a road in the village of Castle Ascombe, a man with nothing in his pockets, an aroma of whiskey about him, and nobody willing to admit they knew him, and sends Detective Inspector Jimmy Brent to unravel a case in which the local vicar takes to hiding under hedges, the doctor develops a convenient deafness, and a convenient suicide threatens to close the investigation before Brent can untangle the web of motive, complicity, and small-town secrecy that surrounds the dead man's true identity and purpose in the village.
Author: Harold Kemp
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, Geoffrey Bles
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - some marks; bumped corners. Binding - tight. DJ - chipped with major loss on rear panel.
A well-constructed English village detective novel, "Death of a Dwarf" opens with the late-night discovery of an unidentified dwarf's body on a road in the village of Castle Ascombe, a man with nothing in his pockets, an aroma of whiskey about him, and nobody willing to admit they knew him, and sends Detective Inspector Jimmy Brent to unravel a case in which the local vicar takes to hiding under hedges, the doctor develops a convenient deafness, and a convenient suicide threatens to close the investigation before Brent can untangle the web of motive, complicity, and small-town secrecy that surrounds the dead man's true identity and purpose in the village.