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Black Out.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with silver gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. Appears unread & unopened. No inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper has a couple of tiny closed tears to foot of rear panel o/w fine. Original price of £15.99net to front flap. An attractive copy of the first Inspector Troy novel.
As the Luftwaffe makes its last desperate assaults on the battered city in 1944, Londoners take to the underground shelters amidst the black out. Detective Sergeant Troy starts with the clue of a neatly dismembered corpse leading him into a world of stateless refugees, military intelligence and corruption all the way to the top of Allied High Comman.
Item #103509
Price: £85.00