by Robert Barnard

Jacket illustration by Tim Gaydos.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1982).

 First American edition, first printing;

First printing number code sequence 1 through 20 to the copyright page.

The second outing for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Perry Trethowan involves a low-life royalty-loving crook, Princess Helena's dead lovers and associates, a left-wing parliament member, an actor, an aristocratic gambler, and more.

Fine and very tight in black boards with metallic-red embossed titles to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a bright spine panel, with a vertical crease to the front inner flap; original $10.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

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