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First UK edition with a 97 98 99 5 4 3 2 1 number sequence indicating a first printing. Price clipped dustjacket. “A fracas in a hotel Gents results in a man’s death. Mainly on the evidence of a local anqiquarian bookseller, Simon Meagor, George Barker is convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison. On his release he kills himself. Barker’s daughter, Morwenna – the redhead – holds the bookseller responsible for her father’s death and the subsequent breakup of her family. She conceives an obsessive hatred for him, but unexpectedly turns up at his shop one day looking for employment. Then Morwenna disappears….” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH