First Edition. 244pp. Quarter bound in blue cloth over blue paper-covered boards, publisher's logo on front, silver titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Outer text block edge untrimmed, starting to fox. Endpapers just starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has several closed tears, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. 8vo. Murder thriller set in the ancient, shabbily elegant manor house above the River Loire where the Monnerie family gathered.
