"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

London: Macmillan, 1988. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by the author, priced at £9.95. Heavily toned to edges and margins. Near fine. The sixth novel by Trow to feature the well-known Inspector Sholto Lestrade, from the Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Item #56218
Price: £60.00