Add this copy of The Riverside Villas Murder to cart. $5.98, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1973 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1973. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151777209. 224 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Carl Smith. keywords: Europe England Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-In form a classic armchair mystery (a flesh-with-blood novel, so to speak), THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER has for its somewhat surprising hero a fourteen-year-old boy hovering hopefully on the brink between inexperience and initiation. The delicious and mind-consuming prospect of sex, which has tempted Peter Furneaux into experiments with his friend Reg, now turns into the hot pursuit, as yet frustrated, of those mysterious and formidable creatures, girls. Riverside Villas, a rural enclave, is the scene of his exploits-and of someone's crime. The victim, dripping wet and with a bleeding head wound, staggers into the sitting room of No. 19 and dies forthwith. Motive: none that the police can pinpoint. Weapon: a weird spiked club devoid of fingerprints. Challenge: only one out of many suspects with a foolproof alibi. The mystery deepens: there are further attacks, and an enigmatic note suggests the lurking presence of a clever and erudite criminal. Only Peter begins to guess at the truth-a dangerous truth, which leads him to the river bank by moonlight. In THE GREEN MAN Kingsley Amis brilliantly revived the ghost story. Now he achieves a comparable triumph with a detective story-a work enlivened by its witty, subtle, sympathetic portrayal of a likable youth discovering sex, by a singularly varied supporting cast, and by a marvelous evocation of the 1930's. THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER is, like its forerunner, a splendid entertainment, clever, comic, and chilling. Those who wish to pit their wits against the author's and solve the mystery for themselves are advised to study pages 61, 82, and 160. inventory #4582.
Add this copy of The Riverside Villas Murder to cart. $18.85, like new condition, Sold by 2VBooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Derwood, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1973 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P.
Add this copy of The Riverside Villas Murder to cart. $19.00, very good condition, Sold by Brian Bauld (B-Line Books) rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Amherst, NS, CANADA, published 1973 by Harcourt Brace.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0151777209. Bright unmarked copy with fromer owner's stamp to ffep. pinprick to cloth on spine.; dj just slgithly sunned.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st American edition, so stated. Lightly soiled endpaers else near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket, not price clipped, $6.95 price intact, in protective mylar cover. "In the late Sixties and Seventies the great British comic novelist Kingsley Amis began to experiment with genre, seeing what he could do by bringing his own spin to the novel of the supernatural (and so produced THE GREEN MAN) and the dystopian novel (THE ALTERATION). THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER was his stab at the classic early twentieth-century detective novel; the central hero detective figures of it, the bachelor aesthete Colonel Menton and the teenage Peter Furneaux, might well have gone on to figure in a whole series of murder mysteries set in the 1930s (though somehow it seems better they did not). Though the actual mystery involving a dying cad stumbling in a rainstorm into a suburban living room is quite clever in terms of how it is worked out ultimately (it will remind you very much of murder mysteries of its era), Amis's true interests are in observing the profoundly middle-class milieu and in Peter's psychosexual development as a young man. We learn that Peter, as a fourteen year-old boy, not only has strong desires for young women (which are miraculously realized during the course of the novel) but that he has had quite a bit of sexual practice with the other boys in his class at school; this, and the Colonel's homosexuality, are both treated quite factually in the novel as something the characters not only have in their characters but that they must speak around in odd and uncomfortable ways..."--Jay Dickson at Amazon.
Add this copy of The Riverside Villas Murders to cart. $25.00, like new condition, Sold by Books Of Choice rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bloomington, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1973 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. 224 pages. First American Edition. A mystery by the late leader of Britain's angry young men. Fine in fine price-clipped dustjacket with minor creasing.
Add this copy of The Riverside Villas Murder to cart. $25.12, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1973 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P.
