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The Return.
by Nesser., Hakan
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND/No Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 1447228332
- ISBN 13
- 9781447228332
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK "AN INSPECTOR VAN VEETEREN MYSTERY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st FNL.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Pan Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated stiff card covers showing a young girl with blonde hair. White & yellow titles to spine & black, white and brown titles to face. No shelf wear to edges, or to head or tail of spine. No visible marks. FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE. * Illustrations: NONE.* Pages: 408 pp. text. xii pp. Extract from "The Mind's Eye,"blank pages & advertisers at rear.* Description:- An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren, when a corpse is found rolled in a rotten carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification – bar one crucial detail. Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man, a double murderer who disappeared nine months before, shortly after being released on parole; a local hero who turned into a monster after being convicted of killing two women over a span of three decades. Recuperating after an operation, Van Veeteren is nevertheless directing investigations from his hospital bed, for he is convinced that only the innocence of this new victim can be the motive for the murder. But is he on the wrong track completely? * This is a FINE copy of the 1st thus. 1st. Imp. fnl, with no visible faults.*
Synopsis
The author of Borkmann's Point spins a story that leaves even the most veteran crime novel readers chilled.A new case for Chief Inspector Van Veeteren -- the complicated history of a nearly perfect murder. On a sunny August day a man is released from prison. On a rainy April day children at play find his corpse. The fact that the dead man is Leopold Verhaven only becomes clear after some time because the mutilated corpse is without its head, legs and feet. Who would be interested in killing this man, a double murderer who spent 24 years in prison?Determined to let no case go unsolved, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren reopens the case. What he discovers is that Verhaven was a star sprinter before he went to prison for allegedly killing two of his lovers. However, he never confessed to the murders and spent a lifetime proclaiming his innocence. Was he killed because someone thought he had not been punished enough? Or was someone afraid of Verhaven's revenge? A terrible suspicion stalks Van Veeteren: had Verhaven been telling the truth? Was he really innocent?From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10395
- Title
- The Return.
- Author
- Nesser., Hakan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 1447228332
- ISBN 13
- 9781447228332
- Publisher
- Pan Books Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 420
- Keywords
- Novel, Fiction, Crime, Mystery.
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