Author: JACKSON, SHIRLEY
Title: The Sundial
Description: New York, NY: Ace Books, 1958. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. Ace Book Number K-166 with a price of . 50cents. The book is in Very Good to Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean, but have light generalized toning. "The Sundial tells the story of the residents of the Halloran house, opening on the evening of the funeral of Lionel Halloran, the house's master. Lionel's wife, Maryjane, is convinced that Lionel was pushed down the stairs and murdered by his mother, Orianna Halloran, who stands to inherit the house; only hours after the funeral, Maryjane taught her young daughter, Fancy, to repeat the phrase "Granny killed my daddy." Also living at Halloran house were the aged Richard Halloran, who needed a wheelchair to move around, and was kept by a nurse; Essex, a young man hired to catalogue the library (and of whom it is implied was more specifically hired to be a kept man to the elder Mrs. Halloran) ; Fanny, Richard Halloran's sister; and Miss Ogilvie, young Fancy's governess. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Horror Shirley Jackson Houses Murder
See more books from our catalog: Horror
Title: The Sundial
Description: New York, NY: Ace Books, 1958. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. Ace Book Number K-166 with a price of . 50cents. The book is in Very Good to Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean, but have light generalized toning. "The Sundial tells the story of the residents of the Halloran house, opening on the evening of the funeral of Lionel Halloran, the house's master. Lionel's wife, Maryjane, is convinced that Lionel was pushed down the stairs and murdered by his mother, Orianna Halloran, who stands to inherit the house; only hours after the funeral, Maryjane taught her young daughter, Fancy, to repeat the phrase "Granny killed my daddy." Also living at Halloran house were the aged Richard Halloran, who needed a wheelchair to move around, and was kept by a nurse; Essex, a young man hired to catalogue the library (and of whom it is implied was more specifically hired to be a kept man to the elder Mrs. Halloran) ; Fanny, Richard Halloran's sister; and Miss Ogilvie, young Fancy's governess. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Horror Shirley Jackson Houses Murder
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 49383
- Book number: 49383
See more books from our catalog: Horror