Burton (Miles, pseud. Cecil Street) Heir to Lucifer
£300
London, Collins Crime Club, 1947.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Desmond Merrion, an amateur sleuth formerly of Naval Intelligence, and his wife are on holiday in the seaside town of Croylehaven, where the eccentric Croyle family and their crumbling Castle Croyle hold dark secrets and, ultimately, murder.
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Cloth very slightly sunned at spine ends; minor rubbing to extremities of jacket but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Maxwell.
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