BROKEN BOY

by John Blackburn

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Blackburn's third novel. A sinister and macabre tale involving underground rituals, the revival of an unholy religion, and a cult of women, seeking revenge. Here too Blackburn weaves in espionage. - Henderson ed , Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers, third edition, p. 96-7. Slight spine lean, else a fine copy in good dust jacket with light wear at

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