Buy this book on-line BOWERS**, DOROTHY: : The BELLS at OLD BAILEY: a novel of detection.**LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1947.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Pictorial colour illustrated dw/dj (portion of a framed embroidery sampler) to upper wrap,black text to rear,white wrap.Minimal shelf-wear to edgeswith very light creasing to both top edges and both head+foot of spine/backstrip have tiny closed tears and creases with negligible loss - text unaffected.Top edge slightly aged/dust-soiled,fore-edge to a lesser degree; contents bright,tight and very clean.Publisher's original,unblemished, red cloth bds with black ink stamped letters to upper bd and spine/backstrip and no bumped corners,with lightly aged, plain white eps with off-set foxing from the dw/dj's inner flaps.Book lightly cocked.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-288pp.
Death came slowly to Ravenchurch.He struck for no apparent reason.He departed in a cloud of horror,doubt and incautious
argument.Officially his visits were pronounced suicide.Unofficially, a whisper
of Murder was already audible when Miss Bertha Tidy made up her mind to go to the police.
She did it from no sense of civic duty, but because two letters had made it clear her own life was imperilled.Better say nothing,though,of her intention to anybody,not even to her immediate circle:
the staff of the Minerva Hatshop and Beauty Parlour,who worked for her: Leonie, her old Breton maid:Kate Beaton,the obnoxiously candid writer of crime fiction,whose house was in sight of her own; Mrs Emmie Weaver,kind old antiquarian
bookseller the other side of Flute Lane; the Rector,who had buried four of the victims; Dr Hare,who gave causes of death,
or Owen Greatorex,the novelist of international reputation,inscrutable, disarmingly gentle.For who was to be trusted? Author's 5th and last crime novel.
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