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The Old Wine Shades
by Grimes, Martha
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670034797
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034796
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Viking/Random House, 2006. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Book Club Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very good Condition. Black paper wrapped boards with bright and bold gilt titles to spine; spotless, with light rubbing to lower edges, spine head and heel compressed. Binding tight & solid, square. Internals in Fine Condition. Unclipped dust jacket with painting by Alan Baker. Jury meets Harry Johnson in the Old Wine Shades--he's a friendly guy and meets Jury regularly after that. He spins out a story of a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day when they were in Surrey. No trace, no clue, nothing to help find out what happened to them. Harry is a genius, or sounds like it, on quantum mechanics and superstring theory. Jury wonders if he is being wound-up-are these stories for real? The dog did come back--but how? and from where? When Jury investigators, all seems to be as Harry described it--until they find the body. 341 pages. 9.6 x 6.5 inches. Viking/Random House, New York, 2006.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029495
- Title
- The Old Wine Shades
- Author
- Grimes, Martha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670034797
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034796
- Publisher
- Viking/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- BRITISH MYSTERY; RICHARD JURY; SCOTLAND YARD;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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