Honeybath's Haven - Hardcover

A CHANGE OF HEIR.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. A stand-alone novel by Innes - the dust jacket calls it "his thriller." Out of work actor George Gadberry "receives a mysterious invitation and a proposition that could lead to enormous riches. Wealthy imbiber Nicholas Comberford wants George to impersonate him in order to secure a place in the will of fabulously affluent Great-Aunt Prudence, who lives in a Cistercian monastery and won't allow a single drop of liquor in the place. Gadberry's luck seems to have changed - but at what cost?" SIGNED on the title page by Michael Innes and very uncommon thus. (J.I.M. Stewart was an Oxford academic who wrote his literate and witty mysteries under the Innes pen name) pp Near fine in red boards in a very good example of the distinctive Gollancz yellow dust jacket (2 short tears along the folds, with tape reinforcement on the verso of the dj). Artikel-Nr. 89099

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