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Dickinson, Peter | Some Deaths Before Dying | Book - Advance Reading Copy
Some Deaths Before Dying | Dickinson, Peter | Book - Advance Reading Copy
 
SOME DEATHS BEFORE DYING by Peter Dickinson
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Advance reading copy, mint, new/unread in pictorial wraps. 1996 NY: Mysterious Press ISBN 9780892966967
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SOME DEATHS BEFORE DYING by Peter Dickinson - BOOK - ADVANCE READING COPY

Mysterious Press: NY 1996 Advance reading copy, mint, new/unread in pictorial wraps.

For nearly her whole life, through most of the twentieth century, Rachel Matson saw the world through the lens of a camera, and produced stunning photographs that not only captured the moment but hinted at a greater truth. Now the ninety-year-old widow lies paralyzed, in the final stages of a debilitating illness. Yet while Rachel's body may be useless, her spirit remains indomitable, her mind razor sharp, and her eye, the trained eye of an artist, still picks up the most telling details. On a television program that showcases heirlooms, an antique pistol that belonged to her late husband, Colonel Jocelyn Matson, turns up, leaving Rachel bewildered and then profoundly disturbed. How could the prized Ladurie - one of a matched pair of dueling pistols she had given to him to commemorate his return from the horrors of a Japanese POW camp - appear hundreds of miles away in the possession of a stranger? Determined to learn the fate of Jocelyn's gun, Rachel falls back on the one thing left to her - her intellect - and soon begins the painful process of teasing the past from the shadows. What emerges from the vivid shards of her memories is a mesmerizing tale of honor, passion, and betrayal that stretches from colonial India to modern-day England ... a tale of a loving marriage interrupted by war, of a once-proud regiment of soldiers broken by unspeakable cruelty, and of a dashing officer burdened by a lurid secret.

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