Ralph Dangerfield, an Edwardian playwright who belonged to the smartest young set of his day, kept a scandalous diary recording the intimate details of his own life and those of his friends. After his death, it was believed that his mother had burnt the incriminating evidence, but fifty years later, a famous collector of literary curiosities claims to have the diary in his possession and threatens to blackmail fashionable London with belated secrets about people now in respectable old age. Sir John Appleby reveals how he ...
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Ralph Dangerfield, an Edwardian playwright who belonged to the smartest young set of his day, kept a scandalous diary recording the intimate details of his own life and those of his friends. After his death, it was believed that his mother had burnt the incriminating evidence, but fifty years later, a famous collector of literary curiosities claims to have the diary in his possession and threatens to blackmail fashionable London with belated secrets about people now in respectable old age. Sir John Appleby reveals how he uncovered this unscrupulous crime and talks about his key role in seventeen more intriguing cases.
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Add this copy of Appleby Talks Again to cart. $23.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1957 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
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Very Good in good jacket. First edition, 1957. Cloth hardcover with dust jacket, 189 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, light discoloration to the pages and the page-edges, soil and discoloration to the dust jacket, wear to the dust jacket including some creasing and tearing to the edges and some loss at the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
