The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,black background with colour photograph to front cover with glossy embossed white and blue letters and white ink printed letters also,similar lettering to spine/backstrip which has a thumbnail detail composed of dw/dj's montage'd colour photographs,story's prose extract to rear panel.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a green+black flecked headband and immaculate plain pale yellow endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 3-506pp [paginated] includes The Beginning,Pts One to Seven.The End; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a traditional poem (Solomon Grundy) and quotation,a contents list/table,double paged illustrated military command chain,individual Pts separator pages and to the rear 8pp blanks.
Author's 2nd novel. An old soldier dies alone in his Edinburgh nursing home.No known relatives,and no will to enact.Just a pawn ticket found amongst his belongings,and fifty thousand pounds in used notes sewn into the lining of his burial suit . . .
Heir hunter Solomon Farthing - down on his luck,until, perhaps,now - is tipped off on this unexpected fortune.Armed with only the deceased's name and the crumpled pawn ticket,he must find the dead man's closest living relative if he is to get a cut of this much-needed cash.But in trawling through the deceased's family tree,Solomon uncovers a mystery that goes back to 1918 and a group of eleven soldiers abandoned in a farmhouse billet in France in the weeks leading up to the Armistice.
Set between contemporary Einburgh and the final brutal days of the Forst World War as the soldiers await their orders,'The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing' shows us how the debts of the present can never be settled unless those of the past have been paid first . . .
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