Devine (D.M.) Devil at your Elbow
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London, Collins Crime Club, 1966.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
A campus mystery set at the fictional University of Hardgate: a lecturer accused of administrative irregularities threatens to reopen the old murder of a student by an unknown seducer; the faculty splits, fear spreads and a new murder follows.
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Bookplate to front pastedown, minor foxing, mostly constrained to margins and extremities; boards very good; dust-jacket with some chipping and few tears/creases.
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