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Guilty by Definition: A Novel
By Susie Dent
Hardcover
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By Susie Dent
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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller
Anonymous letters are delivered to Martha, a dictionary editor, who then sets out to solve a maze of a mystery in this story speckled with clever wordplay.
"Will enthrall crime aficionados, puzzle solvers, Anglophiles and logophiles...fiendishly clever and marvelously entertaining debut—the perfect tonic for any philobiblist's mubble-fubbles." —The Washington Post
She knew there'd be ghosts in Oxford, she just didn't think they'd make their way to the dictionary.
Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at r...
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