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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Dover Pubns
Publication date
February 1, 1987
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780486252964
ISBN-10
0486252965
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$4.50
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "Literate and amusing, with exceptionally believable characters." â The New Yorker.
A free-spirited widow travels to the Riviera, where she meets a lord, accepts his proposal of marriage, and returns with him to England. Bunny, now the wife of Sir Charles d'Estray, is mistress of a vast estate that's fallen into decline. To rescue the property from bankruptcy, Bunny introduces the successful but distasteful measure of accepting paying guests.
In this atmosphere of deeply resented change, a poisonous plant has become the bitter brew of murder. And as a quarrelsome cast of d'Estrays, their servants and guests, and the mystified local police wander through a maze of mutual suspicion, Bunny finds herself not only the chief suspect but also a prime candidate for murder.
"Told with a devastating detachment which is equally brutal toward the English gentry, its middle-class emulators, and upstart cockney detectives." â The New York Times.
A free-spirited widow travels to the Riviera, where she meets a lord, accepts his proposal of marriage, and returns with him to England. Bunny, now the wife of Sir Charles d'Estray, is mistress of a vast estate that's fallen into decline. To rescue the property from bankruptcy, Bunny introduces the successful but distasteful measure of accepting paying guests.
In this atmosphere of deeply resented change, a poisonous plant has become the bitter brew of murder. And as a quarrelsome cast of d'Estrays, their servants and guests, and the mystified local police wander through a maze of mutual suspicion, Bunny finds herself not only the chief suspect but also a prime candidate for murder.
"Told with a devastating detachment which is equally brutal toward the English gentry, its middle-class emulators, and upstart cockney detectives." â The New York Times.
Editions
Paperback
from Dover Pubns (May 18, 2016)
9780486806051 | details & prices | 170 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $9.95
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from Dover Pubns (February 1, 1987)
9780486252964 | details & prices | List price $4.50
About: "Literate and amusing, with exceptionally believable characters.
About: "Literate and amusing, with exceptionally believable characters.
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