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    <title>beautiful place to die</title>
    <subTitle>a novel</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Nunn, Malla.</namePart>
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  <genre authority="gsafd">Mystery fiction.</genre>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Atria Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st Atria Books hardcover ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>375 p. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>In 1952 South Africa, as apartheid laws are going into effect, English detective Emmanuel Cooper's investigation into an Afrikaans police officer's murder is hampered by the Afrikaner Secret Police's campaign to capture black communist radicals.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Malla Nunn.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Police</topic>
    <geographic>South Africa</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Murder</topic>
    <topic>Investigation</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South Africa</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South Africa</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1909-1961</temporal>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PR9619.4 .N86 2009</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">823/.92</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781416586210</identifier>
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