In this seventh Tim Simpson adventure, when persons unknown attempt to murder his old friend Inspector Nobby Roberts, Tim Simpson ignores police instructions to stay out of the affair. He is soon knee-deep in corpses and only just in time to save Nobby. The author also wrote "Mortal Ruin".
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In this seventh Tim Simpson adventure, when persons unknown attempt to murder his old friend Inspector Nobby Roberts, Tim Simpson ignores police instructions to stay out of the affair. He is soon knee-deep in corpses and only just in time to save Nobby. The author also wrote "Mortal Ruin".
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Good. We flipped through this book and didn't notice any notes or underlines. Minor shelf wear. Very slight shelf wear to the dust jacket. This is a hardcover copy. Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st ed, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "English banker cum art expert Tim Simpson ( Mortal Ruin, etc. ) is as urbane an amateur sleuth as Peter Wimsey, and more virile. Here Tim's best friend, inspector Nobby Roberts, is comatose after being attacked while investigating drug deals and money-laundering. Although ordered to stay out of the case by a Scotland Yard commander, Tim picks up a clue dropped by a fetching nurse, which suggests an art angle. The trail leads to a reformed art forger, whose corpse Tim finds. Almost simultaneously he makes fierce enemies of the police, his lover leaves him and the nurse turns up in his bed. The bodies accumulate and Tim himself faces lethal danger before he can solve the puzzles posed by a (possible) long-lost Monet and a Pissarro, art export licenses and vicious drug dealers. Along the way Malcolm offers lore about the impressionists and a witty look at the current art-biz scene: an art dealer is "like a Ferrari salesman...there to flatter the prospect's idea of himself." A real treat. "...PW.