Smoke Screen by Marianne Macdonald
Dido thinks she's onto a good thing when a colleague offers to let her take the big deal he's been offered. The seller is the ex-lover of a famous poet, and wants to let Dido handle the sale of her collection - which includes some wonderful documents as well as valuable first editions. But then things start to go wrong: the house burns down, Dido is accused of theft, and she's the obvious suspect when a murder occurs. It's only with the help of her father that she manages to stay out of jail at all...
The third atmospheric contemporary crime novel featuring the thirtysomething antiquarian bookseller Dido HoareMacdonald is as good on the antiquarian book trade as Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy is in the antique trade, and her plotting is complex and imaginative - The Times Crime SupplementCompelling and cleverly written - Reading ChronicleHer plotting is complex and imaginative - The TimesSmartly crafted whodunnit . . . A clear, quick style that reflects her heroine's crisply modern sensibility - New York Times Book Review
Marianne Macdonald was born in Canada, moved to England in her twenties and never left. She is a former university professor, actress and playwrite, and still is a children's author. She is married to antiquarian bookseller Eric Korn and has two sons. She lives in North London with her husband and dogs, and travels extensively.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780340748336 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340748338 |
| Title | Smoke Screen |
| Author | Marianne Macdonald |
| Series | A Dido Hoare Mystery |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton General Division |
| Year published | 1999-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |