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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 257 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Another chapter in the Victorian Age adventure of no-nonsense Sergeant Bragg and his aristocratic partner Constable Morton, as the two maneuver the hazards of London's police bureaucracy while trying to solve the stabbing murder of industrialist Andrew Livesey. There's evidence that Livesey, in collusion with other businessmen-engineers, was trying to steal the patent on Alfred Nobel's new gunpowder--as well as evidence that Livesey consorted with child prostitutes and had not lived with his wife Sarah for most of their ten-year-marriage. The discovery that Mary Tompkins, a 12-year-old prostitute, was killed with the same distinctive weapon as Livesey leads Bragg and Morton through some sordid byways of London society, their burden increased by two more murders, until the tangled motives behind Livesey's death come clear. Literate and informative, as always with this series, but too disjointed and discursive to rank with the author's best. Condition: Back heal edge bumped, remainder mark at heal end pages. Jacket closed tear at back heal corner and hinge else a near fine copy in like jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS003267
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the tenth novel in the "Sgt. Bragg and Constable Morton" series. Book binder's flaw caused the summary page to have a heavy crease. In very good / fine condition. Seller Inventory # 19135
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Edge wear and rubbing of the DJ. There is a scratch on the front. Seller Inventory # 63007
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: N-Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Pagedge browning as usual else a real nice un-read un-opened copy. British First Edition. Book. Seller Inventory # 016505