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The Wench is Dead
Colin Dexter
1989
Macmillan : London
9" by 6"
200pp
SUMMARY
The first edition of this detective novel from the popular 'Inspector Morse' series by Colin Dexter. Signed by the author.
First Edition,Publishers' Original Binding,Signed,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Fine
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Signed by the author to the title page 'For Peter and Lisa - Its been a great joy to know you better' Peter and Lisa Simon were friends of the author, with some sources stating he knew them from his teaching days in Leicester.
This novel 'The Wench is Dead' received the Gold Dagger Award in 1989.
It is an historical crime novel and is the eighth in the Inspector Morse Series. In this novel Morse is hospitalised due to a bleeding ulcer and is given a book on an historic murder case in Oxford by a friend. In this 1859 murder a young woman was found floating in the Oxford Canal and two men were hanged for the murder. Morse declares this verdict as incorrect and sets about proving the hanged men were innocent from the confines of his hospital bed.
Colin Dexter was a popular English crime writer, best known for his 'Inspector Morse' series of novels. Throughout his career he received several Crime Writer's Association awards: Two Silver Daggers, Two Gold Daggers and A Cartier Diamond Dagger. He also received an OBE for his services to literature.
CONDITION
In the original full cloth binding and held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Dustwrapper is excellent with minor bumping to the head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Overall Condition: Fine Fine
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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