Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) Ten Trials to Tyburn
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London, Hutchinson, n.d. [c.1945].
Early impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9/-.
This Terhune case begins with the death of “Peter the Hermit,” a local vagrant. The police find a foreign newspaper and a jewelled comb on the body.
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Bookplate to front pastedown; spine slightly softened at spine head, otherwise very good; jacket a little worn at spine ends and fore-corners.
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