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THE DEATH OF AN IRISH LOVER
by Gill, Bartholomew (Mark McGarrity)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0380977974
- ISBN 13
- 9780380977970
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The 14th novel in McGarrity's (writing as Bartholomew Gill) highly-praised police procedural mystery series featuring Irish Police Inspector Peter McGarr. This time McGarr is called in to investigate the murders of a man and woman, both police officers married to others, found naked and shot to death in the bed of a luxury country inn. First Edition, First Printing (stated, with complete numberline). 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 265 pages quarter-bound in blue over yellow-paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Remainder mark on bottom text edge, spine ends lightly bumped, touch of soiling on fore edge, o/w boards and text are clean, complete, and unmarked, tight and square. Pictorial dustjacket shows only a slight bit of bumping at spine ends and lower corner of back panel, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped or ex libris. Very acceptable copy.
Synopsis
Crime runs rampant in the picturesque town of Leixleap — and onIreland's famed River Shannon, where brazen thieves illegally harvestthe gourmet-prized eels that flourish there. But while poachingmay be something the local Eel Police division is well-equippedto handle, murder is wholly another matter.Chief Inspector Peter McGarr has been called out from Dublin to investigate a troubling double homicide. The nude body of young, pretty, and,recently married Eel Policewoman Ellen Gilday Finn has been discoveredin the bed of a hot-sheet inn — wrapped around the equally unclothedcorpse of her much older boss, Pascal Burke. A crime of passion, perhaps, pointing to Ellen's cuckolded newly wedded husband as the perpetrator. But conflicting clues and false confessions are leading McGarrinto dangerous hidden corners where greed, corruption, IRA terror andradical, possibly deadly, environmentalism are but a few of the, dark blooms secretly nourished in the rich loam of the Irish countryside.
Reviews
On May 4 2020, The Old Library Bookshop said:
Hard to believe that the most valued commodity in the area surrounding Leixleap on the River Shannon is the eel that swims in its waters. Hard to believe, too, that the job of Eel Policeman is so dangerous that two of Leixleap's finest are found dead in a local hotel. This is more than local law enforcement is able to handle, so a frantic phone call is made to Dublin's Chief Inspector Peter McGarr for assistance. The instigator of that call is an old school mate of McGarr, one whose bullying ways made him widely disliked. Although the murdered couple were shot "in flagrante delicto," McGarr's investigation uncovers clues that lead in a different direction. The IRA? eel poachers? a betrayed spouse? possibly even disgruntled environmentalists? McGarr will sort it all out, of that the reader has no doubt.
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- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005480
- Title
- THE DEATH OF AN IRISH LOVER
- Author
- Gill, Bartholomew (Mark McGarrity)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0380977974
- ISBN 13
- 9780380977970
- Publisher
- William Morrow/HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- CRIME, FIRST EDITION, IRELAND, MCGARR, DUBLIN, POLICE PROCEDURAL, MYSTERY, ADULTERY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Crime; Police Procedural;
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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