Crocodile Bird

by Ruth Rendell

ISBN: 0517595761
ISBN-13: 9780517595763
Format: Hardcover

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1993
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds

Publisher's Notes

The award-winning author of Kissing the Gunner's Daughter creates the story of a mother, a daughter, their obsessive love for each other, and its link to a series of mysterious deaths near a remote English manor.

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Hardcover - Random House Inc (1993) - from $1.00
Paperback Reprint - Bantam Books (1994) - from $1.00

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