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 Author Name: Balchin, Nigel
Title: In the Absence of Mrs Petersen
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good -
Edition: First Edition - 2nd Impression
Size: 5.5 x 8"
Publisher: London Collins 1966
Seller ID: 001921
223pp - In which our Hollywood script-writer hero allows a woman who's the mirror image of his late wife, to use her passport only to find he's been duped into a rather messy and dangerous adventure.
Nigel [Marlin] Balchin (1908 - 1970) was the youngest son of a shopkeeper in West Lavington. In business his father "was neither talented nor successful, a factor that may have had some bearing on Nigel's lifelong preoccupation with the techniques and machinations of the factory floor," according to an online biography of Balchin by Rosalie Hooper. "He grew up intensely aware of money - the need to make it, the difficulty of keeping it, and the uncertain nature of its continued arrival. Even at the height of his career, when he was by any standards a wealthy man, the shadow of poverty remained with him, although paradoxically he was also extremely generous."
In the Absence of Mrs Petersen was one of about 50 novels, short stories, film scripts etc that Balchin wrote. The book is immaculate, the DJ (Now in protective sleeve) in VG condition (not price-clipped) except for some edgewear and some nicks and a closed tear at the spine.
Murder, Mystery, Adventure, Crime, Nigel Balchin
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