Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980. Cloth and boards. Faint damp stain to lower outer corner of fore and bottom page edges (no penetrations), else a fine copy. Black price-clipped jacket has some rubbing, crease to rear flap, VG otherwise. Author's first novel for adults, the winner of the 1980 Seal First Novel Award. It is "a spellbinding mystery that charts the anatomy of fear with deadly precision. The story involves Malcolm Close, an English professor at a Nova Scotia college and his wife Mary ,an artist who are living an almost idyllic life.until their contentment is shattered by the chilling realization that they are not alone in their rambling house by the sea. A sinister intruder taints the rooms of Odd's end." ; Octavo 0771090528