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First impression of the true first edition. ***Colour dustwrapper illustration by Barbara Walton. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with white and mustard-yellow titles to spine. Bottom corner of rear board slightly bumped. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Neat owner's name: 'G. Mitchell' in blue biro to top of front free endpaper. Sporadic foxing to edges of text-block and first and last few pages, most interior pages clean. Slight spine lean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 13s 6d net. Edges of dustwrapper rubbed, nicked and creased. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly creased, nicked and rubbed with tiny chips and tears. Tiny chips and creasing to lower corner of front panel of dustwrapper. Rear panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being white background). Front panel and spine of dustwrapper bright. ***184 pages. 180 x 124 mm. ***'It was a bewildering case of sudden death which took Inspector Tom Hutton, one of Scotland Yard's most talented young detectives, to the quiet Hampshire village of Chapel Stansmere. Here stark red murder walked in the shadows of the night. ***Who was the not-long-dead Solomon Proofer, suspected blackmailer, and what was the secret of Beltrees, the country house he had left to his attractive niece? And, most important of all, who was the Bishop, bank-robber and jewel-thief, and why did he intervene? ***This novel by an experienced crime-writer, who has been compared by several reviewers to Edgar Wallace at his best, will keep you reading to the very end.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***W[illiam] Murdoch Duncan 1909 - 1976 who was born and also died in Glasgow, was a prolific Scottish crime author who wrote two hundred and twenty crime novels, fifty-three under his own name, the others under various pseudonyms: John Cassells, John Dallas, Neill Graham, Martin Locke, Peter Malloch and Lovat Marshall etc., and hundreds of short stories. The pseudonyms he chose depended on the style of novel he was writing. Novels published under his own name W. Murdoch Duncan were detective novels concentrating on organised crime. His books are described as "un-putdownable", and many have detailed, complex characterization and intricate sub-plots. ***First impression of the true first edition of 'The Hour of The Bishop', a particularly hard to find title in collectable condition, especially in its original scarce dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of William Murdoch Duncan, Scottish writers, and rare crime and detective fiction first editions. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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