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The yellow room conspiracy

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Description: An elderly couple, romantically involved all their lives, sit in a sunlit garden in England. At last she puts the question: how did Gerry Grantworth die? So begins the tale of a conspiracy in which both were involved, but knowledge of which they have hidden from each other for 40 years. By the author of The Last Houseparty.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1994.; ©1994
Call number: 660967
Creator: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0892965568; 9780892965564
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Dimensions: 22 cm

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