Publication details: Macdonald,1960,
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The fourth and final Peter Curtis novel, the pseudonym used by Norah Lofts - the larger part of whose large oeuvre was in historical fiction - for her crime novels; her identity, a matter of coy conjecture on its predecessor, 'Lady Living Alone' (1945), is disclosed by the publisher here at the foot of the blurb on the front flap, where this work is compared to Esther Forbes' 'A Mirror for Witches' and Sylvia Townsend Warner's 'Lolly Willowes' - it tells of 'the evil grimace of an ancient wickedness' underlying 'the smiling face of the village green'.
FIRST EDITION, a couple of faint spots and handling marks to fore-margin of early leaves, pp. 256, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, lean to spine, a little spotting to edges and rear endpapers, WH SMith Booksellers stamp to flyleaf, dustjacket in nice shape, a little creasing at head of rear panel, very good
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