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Hodder & Stoughton. 1944. 6th edition (or fifth reprint of first edition). In very scarce DW - the same design as the first edition. Edges of boards slightly sunned,slight lean to spine, endpapers foxed, edges of pages spotted, pages lightly browned. With part of original wraparound film band loosely inserted. Generally a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is lightly foxed and soiled to rear panel and is worn along edges and chipped and creased at head and tail of spine, which is very lightly sunned.

Considered one of Ambler's best works, this novel features the mystery writer Charles Latimer, who stumbles upon the life story of criminal Dimitrios Makropoulos.