Spine/covers well creased, slightly shelf-cocked. Corners bumped, a fair amount of edge wear/chipping. Store stamp inside front cover, slight yellowing. text in very good condition, still somewhat tight.

"Their throats slit, the two men had turned the old vestry of St. Matthew's Church red with blood. In death united, in life no men could have been more disparate: one a Baronet and Minister of the Crown; the other an alcoholic derelict. Commander Adam Dalgliesh believed that to find the killer he had to find the thread that connected the two lives. But he hound himself following a tangled skein of lofty emotions and base ambitions into Britain's enigmatic upper class-and into a labyrinth of ever-widening scandal and murder without end."; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall