The singing sands:
On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that walk" and &quo...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Scribner Paperback Fiction
1996
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| Ausgabe: | First Scribner Paperback Fiction edition |
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| Zusammenfassung: | On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that walk" and "the singing sands," which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and the identity of the deceased. Despite his doctor's orders, Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves |
| Beschreibung: | Originally published in 1953 |
| Beschreibung: | 223 Seiten 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0684818922 9780684818924 0824050002 9780824050009 |
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