Palmprint

Secker & Warburg, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, removed label mark to inside front flap which also hs a crease top to bottom otherwise fine. No inscription very clean throughout. Baracana, one of the last neglected slivers of Empire is about to be declared independent. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has the plans for transfer prepared, but the discovery of the body of a murdered American on the island threatens to disrupt the smoothly calculated process. Chief Superintendent of the Yard, Owen Smith, is sent out to help the local force clear it up with the minimum of fuss. But murder begets murder and Smith finds that his enquiries lead him from this small island to the heights of a Canadian monument of modern technology. Reduced postal rates apply