Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) Seven Clues in Search of a Crime
£250
London, Hutchinson, n.d. [c.1942].
Early impression. With printed compliments slip signed by the author. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, with Hutchinson 4/- Novels price label.
In the first Theodore Terhune bibliomystery, bookseller-detective Terhune interrupts a robbery at the home of Helena Armstrong. He becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a missing key to a family vault and seven enigmatic clues that point to crimes both past and future.
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Internally very good; cloth a little bumped; jacket slightly marked and worn with some loss to/around spine ends fore-corners.
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