224pp. Deep blue cloth boards (worn, marked, darkened at edges, rounded at corners and spine ends). Lending sheet on front endpaper, no other library markings. Occasional spotting on well-thumbed pages. In its original dust jacket (worn, rubbed at edges, scuffed on corners and spine ends, spine crease). Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. Featuring Hugh Paget of New Scotland Yard and Lydford Long, that silent, acute observer of men, who find themselves surrounded by a dark and vivid mystery.
