Commandments Eight by Griffin (1 results)

FIRST EDITION pp. [iv], 348, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket in excellent shape with a couple of tiny nicks, price-clipped by publisher with new price (5/-) printed, very good. A scarce mystery novel by a prolific author; it concerns a 'young Oxford don', who falls in with a crowd for whom the injunctions to not murder or steal 'held no meaning' (blurb) - its setting is an English village, and it eschews the seedier possibilities of its set-up to foreground the love story at its heart.…