Buy this book on-line GODDARD**, ROBERT: : CLOSED CIRCLE.**LONDON.BANTAM,1993. ISBN 0593024923.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial design by Slatter Anderson,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white+gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly toned but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - 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 maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red+white striped headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,7-330pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,title separator page and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book.
An uncommon author SIGNED title.See my book ID rja471 for a UK,8vo wraps, uncorrected proof,SIGNED warmly by GODDARD, example of this same title.
The year is 1931.The new and luxurious transatlantic liner 'Empress of Britain' is on her eastward passage.Among the first-class passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters,making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind them in the United States.A chance meeting on deck brings them a tempting new target in the shape of Miss Charnwood and her niece,the beautiful Diana,only child of the immensely wealthy Fabian Charnwood.
It's a trick they've pulled before,with some success.Charm the daughter into an engagement to marry,then get her father to buy you off.So confident are they of success,in fact,that they make a pact: whichever of them wins Diana Charnwood's love will share his fortune with the other.Who would imagine that these smooth operators would let their hearts rule their heads? Or that violent death would find its way into their neat little scheme? Or that they would stumble into something much darker and deeper than either had suspected?
Readers will find some strange echoes of more recent times in Robert Goddard's latest unputdownable story,in which once again he demonstrates his inimitable power to tease and baffle and deceive.
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