The Spoilt Kill

Mary Theresa Coolican Kelly

first published 1961 HarperCollins Publishers, 1982 paperback 240 pages

Hedley Nicholson, 1; British Library Crime Classics

> Staffordshire in the 1950s. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector Hedley Nicholson.\ > Kelly's mystery won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1961 for its impeccable sense of place and detail, and for the emotional weight of its central c...

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Spoilt Kill paperback · 2020 · Poisoned Pen Press · 256 pages · 9781728219974
The Spoilt Kill audiobook · 1999 · Soundings · 9781860426513
Spoilt Kill edition · 1999 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 240 pages · 9781860494208
The Spoilt Kill hardcover · 1997 · Chivers North America · 240 pages
The Spoilt Kill hardcover · 1990 · Ulverscroft Large Print · 364 pages · 9780708922231
The Spoilt Kill paperback · 1982 · HarperCollins Publishers · 240 pages · 9780060805654
The spoilt kill edition · 1975 · Joseph · 232 pages

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