First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Sax illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh but the gilt titles oxidised to blue. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has a chip to the top edge of the rear panel and a couple of short closed tears. Not price clipped (15s net to the front flap).
Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "For / J. Francis / With kindest remembrances / from / Dennis Wheatley". The fifth Roger Brook novel.
Stock code: 21809
£75
London: Hutchinson.
1955