Superintendent Perry Trethowan is returning to London with his wife, Jan, after visiting his difficult family in Northumberland. Driving through the Yorkshire Dales their car breaks down, and they find themselves stranded in a small village for the night. Taking refuge in the local pub for the evening, Perry and Jan are joined by Miss Edith Wing, a seemingly unremarkable woman with an extraordinary document in her possession. Is this really an undiscovered novel by one of the Bront??? sisters - sure to be a literary ...
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Superintendent Perry Trethowan is returning to London with his wife, Jan, after visiting his difficult family in Northumberland. Driving through the Yorkshire Dales their car breaks down, and they find themselves stranded in a small village for the night. Taking refuge in the local pub for the evening, Perry and Jan are joined by Miss Edith Wing, a seemingly unremarkable woman with an extraordinary document in her possession. Is this really an undiscovered novel by one of the Bront??? sisters - sure to be a literary sensation - or simply an extremely clever forgery? What starts out as a harmless diversion for Robert Barnard's determined policeman, turns into a hunt for a vicious attacker, in this classic mystery from a master of the genre.
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Seller's Description:
Acceptable. Collectible-Acceptable. Good dust jacket. Former Library book. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on front endpage. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. Reading copy only. Spine split. Some pages loose. Slightly dampstained. Stamped on endpage. (Vintage mystery and adventure, mystery, adventure, crime thriller, detective novel, Perry Trethowan, bibliomystery)
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st ed. Page edges mildly age darkened else near fine in dust jacket lightly soiled at rear panel. 3rd in the Inspector Perry Trethowan series. Perry and Jan are in a local pub for a nice relaxing drink when retired school teacher Edith Wing shows them a large piece of yellow paper covered with tiny writing and purports it to be "just like the Brontes...
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First Edition / First Printing as identified with "1" in the full number line. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Pages are clean and intact. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
