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Buy this book on-line WALKER, MARTIN: : BRUNO, CHIEF OF POLICE. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.QUERCUS,22nd JULY,2008. ISBN 9781847245078.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrpt,but author's handwritten, black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,scenic townscape's colour pictorial artwork by David Doyle, illustrated dw/dj and its inner flaps, with black+red lettering to front,red spine/backstrip with French flag illustration and b/w lettering - head of spine gently pushed with reciprocal creases,rear panel with black lettered story preamble; with negligible shelf- wear,bumping,creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present.Front inner flap of dw/dj with an accidental oblique-angled crease. Top edges lightly and partially toned - near the head of backstrip,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and without blemish and sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.Head of spine gently pushed with minor creases.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,1-262pp [paginated] includes 25 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,acknowledgements - these latter two pages with blank reverses,and a facsimile Police Incident Report,also with blank reverse.First in this popular detective series from the British author and correspondent,formerly of The Guardian.
Author's debut book of his character - Benoît "Bruno" Courrèges - an unconventional village policeman,set in the Perigord region of France.
Set in the street markets,cobbled squares,vineyards and farmland of the Dordogne area of France,'Bruno,Chief of Police' features Captain Bruno Courrèges, a man as charming and eccentric as he is wise.A formidable investigator,Bruno must rise to the challenge when the head of an Algerian family is murdered and the peace of Bruno's beloved village of St. Denis is shattered.Racism is the obvious conclusion,and the son of a local doctor who is caught playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia is the immediate suspect.
But Bruno knows his people well and sees a more complex explanation lurking in the memories and unsettled feuds of the German occupation.
Scarce collectable,particularly a SIGNED copy.
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