First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents, with some spotting to the text block top edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which is a little toned to the spine, has a 5.5cm closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel and a shorter closed tear at the head of the spine. Not price-clipped (10s 6d to the front flap).
The eighteenth Tommy Hambledon thriller. "Here's Hambledon again, and those two delightful assistants, Forgan and Campbell, after Leonard Adair of the Diplomatic Service, who has disappeared while on holiday on the shore of Lake Como." (from the jacket) (Hubin).
Stock code: 24807
£60