1st ed, 1st imp. 240pp. Black cloth boards (rubbed at corners, worn on edges, softening, minimal lean). Lending sheet on front free endpaper, no other library markings. Some fingering on pages and occasional spotting. Strip tanning on last page, likely from dust jacket rear flap. In its original pictorial dust jacket (art work by Tansley). Dust jacket lightly rubbed at corners and spine tips, bumped along upper edge, couple of small nicks and faults). Also wrote as David Graeme and Peter Bourne. A novel featuring Bruce’s recurring character, Theodore Terhune, a bookseller who develops a habit of involvement with crimes. The last in the series. Very hard to find title, scarce in its original dust jacket.