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A first edition hardback with a stated First world edition published in Great Britain and the USA in 2023. Read once very carefully. Pictorial boards. The dust jacket is complete and is un-priced, which is the norm now for Severn House books. Small nick to bottom right-hand corner of the dust jacket caused in transit.
A Gaslight Mystery.
SYNOPSIS: “Wilkie Collins is looking forward to spending Christmas at Gad’s Hill, Charles Dickens’ Kentish country home, but the festivities are cut short when a body is found on the snowy marshland. Timmy O’Connor was invited to the gathering with his three nephews after a chance encounter with Dickens, but is now dead.
Dickens is convinced the murderer is one of the convicts from a nearby prison ship, but Collins is not so sure. who was this mysterious and unpleasant stranger from Cork who turned Christmas cheer to fear? With the convicts, guests and even Timmy’s nephews under suspicion, there is no shortage of suspects for such a violent act, but which one of them is a cold-blooded killer?”
Packed weight 490gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH
