tiny spot front page edges, and slight push top of spine, in a similar slipcase with slight shelf and edge wear; no dust jacket as issued. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. MacDonald was a great practitioner of the mystery-suspense genre; his books remain readable, even if his characters are nowhere near as enlightened as we tend to be today.

An Inspector Calls By J.B Priestley | Used | 9780435232825

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. He wrote successful articles and essays, then published the first of many novels, The Good Companions. In this play an inspector interrupts a party to investigate a girl's suicide, and implicates each of the party-makers in her death.Philosophical theories about time, Socialist dogmatism (often erupting into sermons), and a taste for dramatic expressionism may be said to have finally deflected him from his goal. Into this cosy scene intrudes the harsh figure of a police inspector investigating the suicide of a young working-class woman, every member of the family turns out to have a shameful secret which links them with her death. The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. No secret as to the cause of death--a nearly nude, twelve-story plunge from a room in the Plaza Hotel--but Kara is determined to learn what led to that plunge.

An Inspector Calls (Heinemann Plays For 14-16+) - J.B An Inspector Calls (Heinemann Plays For 14-16+) - J.B

Publisher’s lettered limited edition, Near Fine to Fine book with slight edge crease to middle of a couple pages around p. The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, focusing on the prosperous middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter’s engagement. Red boards in dust jacket with just a few tiny spots and unlike the limited edition the slipcase for the Lettered Edition is made of WOOD!The two, particularly Dannay, were also responsible for co-founding and directing Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, generally considered as one of the most influential English crime fiction magazines of the last sixty-five years. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.