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A Rope of Sand

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Penguin Main Series 537. 1st Edition, published 1947.

Criminologist Peter Shane has retired to a cottage among the sand dunes on the shore of Lake Michigan to write a report. There he and his assistant, Francis Bonnamy, meet some very eccentric people, one of whom, a metallurgist named Hjalmar Hjerleid, is said to be working on a new alloy that is expected to be of great value to the United States Government and the war industries…

Condition grading: Good Minus. Price to bottom of front cover. Wear to grubby spine. Staining and creases to top left of rear cover. The photographs form part of the description.

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Penguin Main Series 537. 1st Edition, published 1947.

Criminologist Peter Shane has retired to a cottage among the sand dunes on the shore of Lake Michigan to write a report. There he and his assistant, Francis Bonnamy, meet some very eccentric people, one of whom, a metallurgist named Hjalmar Hjerleid, is said to be working on a new alloy that is expected to be of great value to the United States Government and the war industries…

Condition grading: Good Minus. Price to bottom of front cover. Wear to grubby spine. Staining and creases to top left of rear cover. The photographs form part of the description.

Penguin Main Series 537. 1st Edition, published 1947.

Criminologist Peter Shane has retired to a cottage among the sand dunes on the shore of Lake Michigan to write a report. There he and his assistant, Francis Bonnamy, meet some very eccentric people, one of whom, a metallurgist named Hjalmar Hjerleid, is said to be working on a new alloy that is expected to be of great value to the United States Government and the war industries…

Condition grading: Good Minus. Price to bottom of front cover. Wear to grubby spine. Staining and creases to top left of rear cover. The photographs form part of the description.

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