By Josephine Bell

New York: Walker and Company, (1980).

First American edition, SECOND printing.

Second printing number code sequence 2 through 10 to the copyright page.

Ernest Socolov jacket art.

Anita Armstrong, a once famous and best-selling novelist, is writing a new novel after forty years in abeyance, to regain her reputation and because of extreme financial pressures.

The editors and publisher believe it will be even more successful and important that her previous books, and some clever characters move in to plagiarize and publish a pirated version--soon after murdered bodies start appearing.

Quite an elusive hardcover mystery title.

Fine and tight in antique-cream boards with black embossed titles to the spine; in a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket with a few mild short scratches to the front panel, and with a nick and a very short tear to the upper shelf-edge; original printed $8.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo.

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