SOLD AS IF BY MAGIC BY DOLORES GORDON SMITH SIGNED + DOODLED RARE FIRST EDITION BOOK (TOP HAT)
THIS LISTING IS FOR A TOP HAT VARIANT.
Sometimes don't you just wish you had the opportunity to buy a first edition first printing of an Agatha Christie book?
Doodled Books is thrilled that new author Dolores Gordon-Smith has exclusively created some special doodled books of her novel As if by Magic
Dolores is following in the footsteps of Catriona McPherson at Constable and Robinson who has just signed a £XXXXXXXX contract with Hodder and Stoughton. We think it's only a matter of time before a major publisher takes the series on.
This is Dolores third book in the Jack Haldean Murder Mystery Series - approximately 1200 books make up the first print run.
The book has just been published so to get an exclusive book before they sell out order one today!!!
There are 5 different variants of doodle (see the pictures for the doodle on offer):
- A gun (numbered 1-6)
- A plane(numbered 7-12)
- A vintage car (numbered 13-18)
- A dagger (numbered 19-24)
- A top hat (numbered 25-30)
The books are also double signed by the author and cover artist Ken Leeder. The variants are in sets of 6 books.
Book Description
A Jack Haldean murder mystery
Product Description
George Lassiter is destitute, ill and desperate. Desperate enough to break into the kitchen of a stranger’s house for warmth, food and shelter. And there, on that bitterly cold night in 1922, he witnesses a murder, the murder of a beautiful girl. But where’s the body? When the police search the house they find nothing. It’s vanished, as if by magic. It’s nothing but a hallucination born of delerium, say the police. And reluctantly, George is forced to agree. Even his friend and rescuer Jack Haldean believes it’s a nightmare but the consequences of that nightmare will plunge Jack into a tangle of theft, lies and obsession as George hunts for his inheritance - and Jack hunts a ruthless killer. Praise for Dolores Gordon-Smith ‘A classic post-war country house mystery with a Christie-like denoument’ Kirkus reviews ‘Recaptures the vitality and insouciance of the Golden Age writers’ Robert Barnard ‘Gordon-Smith’s clean-cut hero plays a straight bat… to be read while eating strawberries and listening to a brass band’ Saga Magazine ‘A spectacular debut…Jack Haldean is a very welcome addition to the annals of crime fiction… Mrs Gordon-Smith is at the beginning of a distinguished career as a crime writer’ Tangled Web
About the Author
Dolores Gordon-Smith has worked as a teacher, civil servant, library assistant and stand-up comedienne. She is married with five children and lives in Cheshire. She is currently working on her fourth Jack Haldean murder mystery.
Product details
- First Edition First Printing
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Constable (25 Jun 2009)
- ISBN-10: 1845299361
- ISBN-13: 978-1845299361
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.7 x 3 cm
