192pp. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine (small indentation on lower edge). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, illustrated dust jacket, not price-clipped (very lightly bumped along upper edge).Part thriller, part detective story, Spanish Drums is an extraordinary evocation of time and place, a brilliant and gripping novel of intrigue, the first in a planned trilogy of modern Spain. Tall and slim 8vo.