First Edition. 364pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Top text block edges tanning. Ex-libris plate on front pastedown. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. Lindsay reconstructs a famous and sensational nineteenth-century crime, bringing before us as living human beings the various characters involved.
