Political Suicide

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1986). First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with no discernible wear, the only blemish being a former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a faint vertical scuff line down the middle of the rear panel]. "Member of Parliament James Partridge has committed suicide by throwing himself into the Thames. Or has he? Probing this mysterious death, Superintendent Sutcliffe of the London police learns both to admire the unassuming, conscientious victim and to wonder at the remarkable lack of genuine mourners." This is a review copy, with the publisher's original press release and review slip laid in .