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y separately published work icon Death and a Madonna single work   novel   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Death and a Madonna
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Classical detective novel set in modern Italy.'

Source: John Loder, Australian Crime Fiction A Bibliography 1857-1993. (1994); 190.

Trove offers a slightly more detailed synopsis: 'A group of people is isolated in a Benedictine monastery on an Italian mountain. Violent death strikes and the strands of love, conflict and anger existing among the members of the group must be unravelled to find the truth.' (Sighted: 20/5/2014)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Denise and Jim

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Macmillan ,
      1986 .
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      Extent: 190p.
      ISBN: 0333423305
    • Garden City, New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Doubleday ,
      1987 .
      Extent: 184p.
      Note/s:
      • Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday. (Libraries Australia record).
      ISBN: 0385243065

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording. Also braille.

Works about this Work

Rocky Road to Death in Monastery Mystery Jeff Popple , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 May 1988; (p. 30)

— Review of Death and a Madonna Joan O'Hagan , 1986 single work novel
Unlikeable Suspects Make For a Rather Pedestrian Whodunit Katharine England , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 January 1988;

— Review of Death and a Madonna Joan O'Hagan , 1986 single work novel
Unlikeable Suspects Make For a Rather Pedestrian Whodunit Katharine England , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 January 1988;

— Review of Death and a Madonna Joan O'Hagan , 1986 single work novel
Rocky Road to Death in Monastery Mystery Jeff Popple , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 May 1988; (p. 30)

— Review of Death and a Madonna Joan O'Hagan , 1986 single work novel
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