London: Collins Crime Club, 1968. Red boards. Usual hairline crack to inner hinges but quite tight in the binding; else fine. Black price-clipped jacket has the expected sunning to the pink portions of the spine; vertical crease to front flap and sm all corner crease to rear flap; light rubbing to panels; else fine. Woods has long lived in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she began writing, but has set all of her novels in her native England.