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    By Colin Dexter
    London   Macmillan
    9.5" by 6" 275pp
    A bright, fine, first edition of this Inspector Morse novel by Colin Dexter. Signed by Colin Dexter to the title page.
    By Colin Dexter

    1991 The Jewel That Was Ours

    London   Macmillan
    9.5" by 6" 275pp
    A bright, fine, first edition of this Inspector Morse novel by Colin Dexter. Signed by Colin Dexter to the title page.
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    : 0.75kgs / : 740L14

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    Description

    First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

    An American tourist is found dead in her room at the Randolph Hotel, and her prized and very expensive piece of antique jewellery (The Wolvercote Tongue) has been stolen. Two days later a battered and naked corpse is dragged from the River Cherwell. Morse is sure there is a connection and uncovers a complex plot of revenge.

    This is the ninth novel in this crime fiction series. It centres on an American tourist who is found dead in her room at the Randolph Hotel with her expensive piece of antique jewellery stolen. 
     
    Colin Dexter was a popular English crime writer, best known for his 'Inspector Morse' series of novels. Throughout his career he received several Crime Writer's Association awards: Two Silver Daggers, Two Gold Daggers and A Cartier Diamond Dagger. He also received an OBE for his services to literature. 

    Condition

    In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper is in an excellent condition. Small instance of rubbing to the 'I' of 'Colin Dexter'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

    Fine

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