Pan, London, 1993, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-330-32854-9.  MMPB, 192 pages.  Very good; tight binding; light edge wear, corner bends, some light scratches/impressions, sticker ghost on rear wrap.  Small light upper corner bends to first 30 pages; interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘And never borrow money from criminals, he might have added.  Because when you’re too broke to pay, they’re liable to ask for something more permanent than interest …  Welching on an underworld loan was the latest in the long line of personal disasters for Detective Superintendent George Macrae of Cannon Row police station.  Even his sergeant, Leopold Silver, couldn’t afford to turn a blind eye.  But then came the blackmail – and the suicide of a beautiful woman.  And the discovery that it was Macrae who was meant to die …’ (from rear wrap)