The Emperor's Snuff-Box

Condition: Good

Crease on the front cover and slight wear to head and tail of spine. The spine label has slightly browned but is cleaner than most comparable copies. Spine is uncreased, both covers are bright and unmarked, and the pages are hardly tanned at all given the book's age.

"Eve Neil, too beautiful for her own good, thought at first that she could keep quiet about her actions at the time that Sir Maurice Lawes was murdered. True, she and Ned Atwood had seen Sir Maurice from her window, had noted first his absorption in his antique snuff-box, and then had looked again and seen him dead, with someone reaching back a brown-gloved hand to put out the light. But she could only prove it by telling that Ned had seen it with her, and she preferred not to explain to her fiancé and his family that her attractive ex-husband had been in that room with her. Eve reckoned, however, without the horrifying charge of murder leveled against her by the police."

Penguin paperback edition, 1953. A crease on the front cover and slight wear to the head and tail of the spine, but otherwise in very good condition. The spine label has slightly browned — as is common with copies of this age — but is cleaner than most comparable copies. The spine itself is uncreased, both covers are bright and unmarked, and the pages are hardly tanned at all given the book's age.