London: Peter Davies, 1960. Navy boards, pp (224). Bookseller ticket at front, page edges tanned, front cover a little splayed, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has long tears internally repaired, just good. Canadian author's second of two crime novels, a gothic inflected tale set in Montreal. Fry was an editor at McClelland & Stewart 1975-71, and worked with Sinclair Ross, Farley Moway, and Ernest Buckler, as well as edited Atwood's THE EDIBLE WOMAN. She emigrated to Montreal from London at age eleven and lived there for many years, at some point returning to London for a time. Uncommon.; Octavo