Buy this book on-line BROPHY, JOHN: : TURN THE KEY SOFTLY - A NovelLONDON.COLLINS,1931. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+. Handwritten ink gift presentation inscrptn and contemporary date (Xmas 1951) and random number (25) to top corner of ffe but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,colour /pictorial artwork by Kenneth Farnhill,illustrated front panel+ spine,with b/w lettering to both,rear panel with lightly grubbed white background with author's other novels listing; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - two small closed tears,one with concomitant creasing - both at head of spine's two gutters,top corner with small closed tear but no other major nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly discoloured from light dust-soiling and a small blemish but no foxing/spotting,fore-edges brighter and cleaner with minimal but faint foxing/ spotting,bottom edges deckled (untrimmed); contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,plain white eps and both hinges solid and sound with no splits or any cracking.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5- 255pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,17 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
'Turn the Key Softly' develops suspense right from the start, when three women are released at daybreak from a London prison. Significant occurrences fill the following twelve hours, involving a handful of jonquils,an identity disc,a pair of ear- rings bought in Regent Street,a Shakespearean tag quoted in jest,a celebration ended by a telephone call,and a key which opens a door leading to the roof of a theatre.Step by step with the events,the diverse characters of the three women are fully and truthfully disclosed, each as the other two see her,but each also from the vantage point of her own most secret thoughts and feelings.
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