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A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.
The book is UNREAD but has age tanning to pages. Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since. Price still on dust jacket.
SIGNED+ by Michael Jecks on the title page.
SYNOPSIS: “After their gruelling journey back from Galicia, Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King’s Peace, and his friend Baliff Simon Puttock, are almost home, but in the Cornish vill of Cardinham, while they rest, a penniless young woman, Athelina, is found hanged alongside the dead bodies of her children. At first this seems to be the final act of a desperate woman, but then suspicious are raised, and Simon and Baldwin are asked to investigate her death.”
Packed weight 780gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH
