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The Times (of The Becket Factor)
‘A superior example of the classic English crime novel’
Sunday Telegraph (of Dark Provenance)
‘Utterly engaging. Canterbury tale of skulduggery combined with ecclesiastical morals and politics’ Daily Telegraph
The sequestered peace of the Canterbury Cathedral community is shattered by the arrival of a poison-pen letter. Reluctantly dragged from his administrative duties to investigate the allegations of gross sexual misconduct between a recently widowed parson and his female assistant, senior Church official Richard Harrison accidentally stumbles upon the horrific scene of a double killing. In doing so, he is set on a lonely, tortuous path to discover the identity of the anonymous letter-writer, whose malicious libels apparently precipitated the tragic deaths.
Faced with a seemingly motiveless malignancy, Harrison follows a maze of leads in which the proposed sale of a 200-year-old charity cottage and the short, violent life of Christopher Marlowe, the sixteenth-century poet and playwright, appear to twine about the bizarre happenings in a country parish, leading finally to that midnight hour when past misdeeds have to be paid for, and when, in the words of Doctor Faustus, ‘the clock will strike and the devil will come...’
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (canterbury cathedral fiction). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers J03A-03126
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by the Author on the title page. First Edition. Purple hardcover with silver titling to spine. 302 pages. Clean and tight. Probably never read. Bumps to spine ends and corners, else Very Good condition. Slightly cocked to the right. Only signed copy on internet at this listing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G6392
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Vwery Slight Cocking To Psine. Unworn, Unmarked Hardback. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 016770-01
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Buchbeschreibung Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 102884
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing, hardcover. Blue cloth with silver titles. 303 pages. Fine with pages lightly tanned, in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009750
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 978000232648U
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