NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First edition. 227pp. Mustard boards backed with blue quarter cloth; blind-embossed motif to front board; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Some foxing to deckled fore-edge; faint foxing to endpapers; Very good in a price-clipped jacket, with two vertical creases to rear flap, light rubbing.
The 14th entry in the Lew Archer series of hardboiled mystery novels by Ross Macdonald, the primary pseudonym of American-Canadian writer Kenneth Millar (1915-1983). This copy signed by Millar (as Macdonald) at the front free endpaper.
