A Kurt Wallander Mystery. Signed First US Edition. The New Press, New York 2000, With a dedication from the author to a previous owner. Book is fine. Dustwrapper is fine. Not price clipped. "Four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit in a convent in Africa. In Sweden, a birdwatcher is skewered to death after falling into a pit fo carefully sharpened bamboo poles. How are these deaths connected? Detective Kurt Wallander, 'the charmingly melancholy Scandinavian of lore and tradition', is hot on the trail. According to the 'Wall Street Journal', Mankell joins the worthy ranks of such past masters as George Simenon, Nicholas Freeling and Sweden's own Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö.