At Death's Door [*SIGNED*]

London: Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, minor shelfwear, light smudge on front endpaper, previous owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed behind rear jacket flap); jacket is nice and bright, with just a teensy bit of wear to the upper right corner of the front panel]. (The Crime Club) Series INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Big Al, / with greetings / from / Bob Barnard." Sussex-set mystery novel about an illegitimate daughter of the protagonist's elderly father, the result of his long-ago fling with a famous actress, who's purportedly researching a book about her mother, but turns out to have ulterior motives -- as does the actress herself, who also turns up in the course of the story. Signed by Author .