Buy this book on-line TROW**, M. J: : LESTRADE AND THE DEADLY GAMELONDON.CONSTABLE,1990. ISBN 0094697205.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Constable Crime series/ imprint.] FINE-/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork by Terry Pastor illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks,tears or splits present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip and a small circular indent halfway down same,to rear gutter's crease/fold.Top edges very lightly aged/toned with very minimal foxing,fore-edges similarly with minimal, sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, and clean with minimal page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers with no off-seeting from dw/dj inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-224pp [psginated] includes 10 chapters; plus [unpaginated] includes half-title with story precis with list of author's other titles to its reverse,title page,a dedication with an epigram and a blank reverse.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite them,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness.
The papers call it suicide.The deceased's
father doesn't.But when Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard investigates the death by duelling pistol of Anstruther Fitzgibbon, 27,son of the Marquess of Bolsover,his suspicions of foul play are immediately aroused.One of Britain's leading athletes,'nimbler than a wallaby on heat', Fitzgibbon is the first victim in a series of murders which threatens to extinguish the exhilaration of the Olympic Games held in London that glorious summer of 1908.
As the capital plays host to an army of athletes from the Empire,Europe and the United States,international politics rears its ugly head: a respected German journalist is discovered with an ornate paper-knife embedded in his back.When a hurdler of the Ladies' Team falls victim to her own bust improver (dubbed 'the killer corset'),fingers are pointed in all
directions and not least of Lestrade's worries is that his leading lady's husband is an American detective with a short temper and the physique of a brick privy.
M.J. Trow is endlessly inventive in his affectionate portrayal of Sholto Lestrade and his eccentric antics in the seething underworld of Edwardian England.8th Lestrade novel.
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