Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Tan paper covered boards have brown lettering to the spine and front cover of the book. Text pages are clean & bright. Top edge of book has some light foxing / spotting. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping, rubbing & edge wear. Rear bottom edge of dust jacket has a small edge tear and there is a jagged, triangular shaped chip missing to bottom rear dust jacket also. Bottom spine end of dust jacket has a small rectangular chip missing. Overall, a very good+ copy. This edition looks to have one of the dust jackets from the original Morrow edition (it has the Morrow imprint on the bottom spine end and a price on front flap) married to a Walter Black copy of the book. "The client had an extraordinary air of assurance about her - one could almost say a queenly air. There was no doubt that she was in some sort of jam, which had started years before when she had won a beauty contest. The question was, why was she trying to hide what had happened since - and who was trying to expose it?"

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