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Book Condition: Used Fine
Jacket condition: Very Good+
Seller: West of Eden Books

United States
About Item: London, Cassell & Co., 1960, hardcover, 185 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Signed and inscribed by the Author on a small label pasted to front endpaper, Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, text block lightly age-toned. Dustjacket price clipped, slightest edge nicks, light rubs and tiny, closed top-edge tear to rear panel in new Brodart sleeve. The New Zealand-born author and rugby writer who was responsible for a number of well-known urban legends, including the widespread belief that the flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper and that the brassiere was invented by Otto Titzling presents a work of detective fiction stories featuring Detective-Superintendent Keeton and centered on the murder of a young man and his connection to three, very different, society women.
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