HERRON, Mick. Down Cemetery Road. London: Constable. 2003.
8vo. Original black cloth lettered in silver to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Nick Castle; pp. 317, [3]; a touch pushed to spine tips, otherwise a fine, bright copy, the cloth and silver lettering sharp, the pages unmarked, and without the spotting or toning common with this volume; in the fine, unclipped dustwrapper, priced £16.99 to the front flap; signed by the author without dedication in blue ink to the title page; a lovely copy.
A fine, signed, first edition, first printing of the author's debut novel.
When a house explodes in an Oxford suburb, a young girl disappears. Sarah Tucker, a young woman determined to find her, enlists the help of Zoë Boehm’s detective agency.
Herron's first published work – the title is from Philip Larkin's poem "Toads Revisited" – is the first in a series of four Oxford-based novels (2003-9) featuring private detective Zoë Boehm. Preceding the better-known Slough House novels, recently adapted for television and memorably starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, a television adaptation of Down Cemetery Road with Emma Thompson cast as Zoë is currently screening.
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