Diplomat's Folly - Hardcover
Aylwin Hundrych is a diplomat with political aspirations, who was once involved with a French girl, Antoinette, with whom he unwittingly shared details about a royal visit to Paris - details which put the King's life in danger. Antoinette's brother holds the former lovers' letters, and is threatening to use them. Hundrych makes a first payment, but the demands continue.
Hundrych enlists his old friend Sir Vane Tabbard's son, an ex-commando called Gray Tabbard, who is not too scrupulous about what he does. Gray searches the blackmailer's apartment, but reports back that he cannot find a particularly compromising note.
And Gray is in love with the girl Hundrych plans to marry . . .
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'One of the best and soundest detective writers' Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times
About the Author:
Henry Wade was the pen name of Major Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, CVO DSO, 6th Baronet and Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1954 to 1961). Aubrey-Fletcher was the only son and second child of Sir Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 5th Baronet, and Emily Harriet Wade. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford, and fought in both the First World War and Second World War with the Grenadier Guards, and in 1917 was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and French Croix de guerre. He married Mary Augusta Chilton in 1911 and they had five children. He was a member of Buckinghamshire County Council and was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1925. He played Minor counties cricket between 1921 and 1928 for Buckinghamshire. A noted mystery writer, his stories were published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and he was a founding member of the Detection Club.
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- PublisherH Baker
- ISBN 10 0093023502
- ISBN 13 9780093023506
- BindingHardcover
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Diplomat's Folly
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Howard Baker Publishers Limited, Harmondsworth
(1970)
ISBN 10: 0093023502
ISBN 13: 9780093023506
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Book Description Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Second edition from 1970 of a novel first published by Constable in 1951. There is a spine lean and a dent in the bottom edge of the front panel of the boards. The page edges have light marking. A three inch long triangular piece has been cut from the top corner of the front free endpaper. Previous owner's name in ink to the top left hand corner but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has some fading to the spine and rubbing to the edges where there are a few small nicks. One and a half inch patch of surface wear to the front panel where a label has been removed. Seller Inventory # 014410
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