Men of Subtle Craft (The Crime Club) - Hardcover
Stated first U.S. edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Rubs to the dust jacket's spine tips and corners.
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Fans of Arnold Landon (A Trout in the Milk), mild-mannered Northumberland bureaucrat, will relish this polite, nicely old-fashioned mystery. Amateur medievalist Landon is asked to help a military historian at Newcastle University in tracing a 12th century master builder. A ruined castle, which may hold crucial clues, lies on the estate of Yates, a much-disliked landlord whose tenants want to stop him from "improving" the estate at their expense. The first two-thirds of the book reveal, to us and to Landon, just how surrounded by enemies Yates isand deservedly so. A young poacher and would-be tenant, a rude, irascible military historian, a solitary, brooding farmer, a putative heir to the estate, the "heir's" strong-willed lady-love, and Yates's housekeeper/mistress all have reason to wish the landlord ill. Landon finds Yates with a medieval crossbow bolt in his chest, and it devolves upon our self-effacing hero to find the villain. Justice is done, but not until Landon must sort through various unruly passions: "People gave him problems of emotional upset." A leisurely, fine-textured treat.
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- PublisherCollins Crime
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0002321467
- ISBN 13 9780002321464
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 192 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Asked to assist a historian with research into a medieval mason, Arnold London is left in no doubt by his superiors that he is to keep his personal interests distinct from his planning work. But when local magistrate Patrick Yates is found dead in his own stable-yard by means such as a medieval mason would have used, Arnold's research unlocks vital clues to the Yates murder - and he has to risk his own life to find the killer. Condition: Gently bumped heal corner else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS000157
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