London. 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk. During a stroll through Regent's Park, Bruce Mallaig witnesses two men acting suspiciously around a footbridge. In a matter of moments, one of them has been murdered; Mallaig's view of the assailant but a brief glimpse of a ghastly face in the glow of a struck match. The murderer's noiseless approach and escape seems to defy all logic, and even the victim's identity is quickly thrown into uncertainty. Lorac's ...
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London. 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk. During a stroll through Regent's Park, Bruce Mallaig witnesses two men acting suspiciously around a footbridge. In a matter of moments, one of them has been murdered; Mallaig's view of the assailant but a brief glimpse of a ghastly face in the glow of a struck match. The murderer's noiseless approach and escape seems to defy all logic, and even the victim's identity is quickly thrown into uncertainty. Lorac's shrewd yet personable C.I.D. man MacDonald must set to work once again to unravel this near-impossible mystery.
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Add this copy of Murder By Matchlight: a Traditional Detective Mystery to cart. $36.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Poisoned Pen Press.
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Add this copy of Murder By Matchlight to cart. $1,207.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1946 by Mystery House.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. 288 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in navy blue. Near Fine, slight lean, in an unfaded, unclipped dust jacket with some foxing, else Near Fine, lightly shelf wear. A lovely example of the scarce jacket. A novel from the golden age of British mysteries named to the British Library Crime Classics in 2019, even more rare in its American edition.
