In Julia Probyn's fifth adventure, Julia moves to a remote French mountain village near the Spanish border, while her husband, a British Intelligence agent, is on a secret assignment. As always, adventure comes Julia's way. A sabotage plot is underway, with France's gas reserved being targeted. Julia is six months pregnant as the plot unfolds, and her early labour creates additional suspense. The book is richest in its secondary characters: a Scottish lord & his family living in a nearby town with their optimist and ...
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In Julia Probyn's fifth adventure, Julia moves to a remote French mountain village near the Spanish border, while her husband, a British Intelligence agent, is on a secret assignment. As always, adventure comes Julia's way. A sabotage plot is underway, with France's gas reserved being targeted. Julia is six months pregnant as the plot unfolds, and her early labour creates additional suspense. The book is richest in its secondary characters: a Scottish lord & his family living in a nearby town with their optimist and pessimist twins, Bonnecourt, a mountain guide & hunter and the main suspect in the sabotage, and Julia's cousin, Colin Munro. Fans of Julia Probyn's will delight in the thrilling intrigue of Julia's adventure in the Pyrenees. Ann Bridge (1889-1974), or Lady Mary Dolling (Sanders) O'Malley was born in Hertfordshire. Bridge's novels concern her experiences of the British Foreign Office community in Peking in China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realized settings and demure social satire. Bridge went on to write novels around a serious investigation of modern historical developments. In the 1970s Bridge began to write thrillers centred on a female amateur detective, Julia Probyn, as well writing travel books and family memoirs. Her books were praised for their faithful representation of foreign countries which was down to personal experience and thorough research.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 9x7x1; This book does NOT include a jacket. Ex red cross hospital library. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket. Some foxing, quite heavy on page fore-edge; binding tight; dust jacket a little worn at edges, with browned spine & some yellowing. DJ not price-clipped, & protected in removable clear sleeve.
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Vg in good jacket, in fresh mylar cover; minor rubbing to board edges, small tears and cracks to top edge of jacket, gentle spine lean else a tight unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; stated first edition.
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FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. NOVEL WITH AMATEUR SLEUTH JULIA PROBYN. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS A TINY TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE PANEL AND SOME WEAR AT THE TOP REAR SPINE CORNER BUT IS OTHERWISE FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
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Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. One nick bottom board. Jacket lightly creased, soiled, with a 1" tear front panel. Flaps clipped but price remains.; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages.