A TWIST IN THE TALE

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988, 1^st/4^th pr.  ISBN 0-340-40538-4.  Hard cover, 221 pages.  Very good; beige cloth with gold lettering on spine; sunning along bottom edges, outer page block tanned; binding sound with headbands; remainder dot on bottom edge.  Dust jacket with price intact has light edge and cover wear, a few tiny soil spots and some age-toning.  Book interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘A man decides to visit his mistress.  But on arrival, he sees her embracing another man.  He waits for the interloper to leave, then goes in, starts an argument with the woman, strikes her and it results in her death.  Having left the flat without being seen, he tips off the police about the interloper, who is charged.  Has he achieved The Perfect Murder? … A game of chess with a sexy stranger; a violent argument in a golf club bar; a wine expert challenged to a tasting with a bizarre difference are some of the other intriguing starting-points for a set of cunningly constructed and marvelously entertaining stories ...’ (from front flap)