BEATON**, M.C::Agatha Raisin AND THE BUSY BODY.
- Taschenbuch 2010, ISBN: 9781845299545
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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; With over 1 million copies sold worldwide, this tender and uplifting tale of a boy coming to terms with death has become an international publishing phenomenon: 'Funny, moving and uplifting.' Woman & Home, 6, Crown, Inc, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 304 pages. A novel. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. In 1975 young Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakeland: one square mile of rich black soil carved out of a Chicago ghetto, cradling sparkling apartment towers and emerald lawns where the elite of black professionals live in privilege, secure behind a ten-foot-tall, ivy-covered wrought-iron fence.But eleven-year-old Temmy is drawn to the world outside the fence, to 35th Street, a place of colorful, often dangerous, characters. Here the saved and the sinners are both so "done up" you can't tell one from the other: among them, Alfred Mayes, the oily street preacher and connoisseur of "fine young thangs", whose line is as smooth as honey and whose looks are twice as sweet; and Miss Jonetta, a former lady of the evening, who knows everyone's story, and whose own history is as long and dark as 35th Street. Before a month has passed at Lakeland, Tempestt will witness the death of a friend, cause the arrest of a preacher, and start a chain of events that will send 35th Street up in flames.Only Twice l've Wished for Heaven is a tale of love and loss told by characters as vivid as the times they live in and as complex as the rage they try to bury., Crown, Inc, 1996, 5, HARDBACK " SIMON SERRAILLER, BOOK 7," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight spine lean. No bumps or rubs, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper in clear un-attached protective cover. White title to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. No visible faults. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (black). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight mark to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 354 pp. text. vi pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Duchess of Cornwall Close: sheltered accommodation, a mix of bungalows and flats, newly built and not quite finished. Despite the bitterly cold weather, elderly residents are moving in. They don't notice the figure in the shadows. Someone who doesn't mind the cold. Then, one snowy night, an old lady is murdered - dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex. DCS Simon Serrailler and his team are aware of bizarre circumstances surrounding her death - but they keep some of these details secret, while they desperately search for a match. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. 1st fnl. with only minor faults reducing it to VG+*, Chatto & Windus, 2012-10-25, 3, Virago, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.25" x 9.5. H/B 779 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear to the DJ. Rosamond Lehmann, Antonia White and Vita Sackville-West are three of this century's best-loved women novelists. A favourite work by each author has been collected together here to create a classic omnibus that is both entertaining and absorbing. The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann Introduction by Janet Watts With a disastrous marriage behind her, Olivia Curtis is still vulnerable and open to love. By chance she meets again her childhood friend Rollo Spencer: now handsome, rich - and married. Suddenly her life is changed to one of secret meetings, brief phone calls, drawn curtains and perfect obedience to the rules of clandestine love. Frost in May by Antonia White Introduction by Elizabeth Bowen Nanda Grey is nine when she goes to the Convent of the Five Wounds, thirteen when, catastrophically, she leaves. This wonderful tale of a young girl's absorption into a cloistered religious world is much more than a school story - it is a lyrical account of the death of a soul. All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West Introduction by Victoria Glendinning Lady Slane, aged seventeen, nurtures the secret ambition of becoming an artist. She becomes instead a wife and mother of six children. Seventy years later, released by widowhood, she abandons the family home and retires to a tiny house. Here Lady Slane finds at last a passion, one that comes with the freedom to choose 'simply to be herself., Virago, 1997, 3, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj panels,front panel with b/w+red lettering, rear panel withcritics' black+red lettered reviews; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-199pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters and an epilogue,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,and 2pp b/w illustrated publisher's adverts to the rear of the book. Author died 30th December, 2019. Agatha Raisin has never been one for enforced holiday cheer,but her friendly little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its traditional Christmas festivities.But this year Mr John Sunday,an officer with the Cotswold Health and Safety Board,has chosen Christmas to crack down on what he sees as gross misconduct by every man,woman and child in the vicinity. The village shop is told it can no longer have wooden shelves 'in case someone is inflicted with a splinter'.The village school is ordered to leave lights on at night 'to prevent unauthorized intruders from tripping in the dark'.And children are warned not to play with 'counterfeit banknotes' after passing around toy money in the playground.Finally Mr Sunday goes too far when he rules that there cannot be a Christmas tree atop the church tower this year.Soon after the decree,and just before Christmas,Agatha is sipping a cup of tea and trying to stay awake at the Carsely Ladies Society meeting when a sudden scream wakes her from her stupor.The ladies rush out of the vicarage building to find Sunday lying face down in a holly bush,dead. Agatha is instantly on the case, but with such an unpopular victim,it's impossible to know where to start . . . Author's 21st Agatha Raisin novel to date (then 2010.) She has laso written 25 Hamish Macbeth tales - see my book ID rja682017 for UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn 'DEATH OF A POLICEMAN'. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **, LONDON.CONSTABLE & ROBINSON LTD.,2010., 5<
