In a country mansion converted to adult educational courses, Mr Utamaro is lecturing on Zen Buddhism to a small and not entirely appreciative audience. But Zen questions and their seemingly quirkish answers predominate, until they are superseded by two of greater urgency: 'Who stole the wakizashi?' and 'Who killed Flaveen Mills?' H. R. F. Keating provides the solution in the same brilliantly humorous vein which won him so many admirers with his first novel, Death and the Visiting Firemen.
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In a country mansion converted to adult educational courses, Mr Utamaro is lecturing on Zen Buddhism to a small and not entirely appreciative audience. But Zen questions and their seemingly quirkish answers predominate, until they are superseded by two of greater urgency: 'Who stole the wakizashi?' and 'Who killed Flaveen Mills?' H. R. F. Keating provides the solution in the same brilliantly humorous vein which won him so many admirers with his first novel, Death and the Visiting Firemen.
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Add this copy of Zen There Was Murder to cart. $22.49, fair condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1963 by Penguin.
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Good/Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Ex-Library Red bds with black title to spine. Slant to spine. Bump to spine ends and corners. Damp staining to top board edges. Foxed/grubby outer edge of text block. Usual library markings. Pages tanned with a little foxing. Patchy soiling and corner creases to some pages. Unclipped dustjacket in clear protective sleeve with creasing/sunning to jacket edges and spine.
