Most Secret

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Purple paper over boards, titled in silver, in purple pictorial dust jacket; plain endpapers; 283pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear and rear flap. Sound and tight, gently rubbed, corners bumped, dust to edges of text block, not affecting interior, but front pastedown scuffed: Good or better. Jacket unclipped (priced 16s), lightly sunned, gently rubbed, with minor discoloration to flaps: Very Good. Carr, better known for his detective stories, was an early author of historical mysteries such as this one, which was originally published under the title Devil Kinsmere and the pseudonym Roger Fairbairn.