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Hodder & Stoughton. London. 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, slight offsetting to spine of title from wrapper, endpapers lightly foxed, edges of pages spotted, pages lightly browned. 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.

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.