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THE THIN GREY MAN

Written by Malcolm Saville
Illustrated by Desmond Knight
Published by MacMillan in 1966

THE THIN GREY MAN
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Desmond Knight.
Stock no. 1308934
1st. 1966. Hardback. Almost very good condition.

Crown Books Series. Grey/blue/black pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Ex-lib with slight damage to endpapers/pastedowns. Library stamp to verso of title-page. Some light marks to page margins. Old tape marks to covers and spine slightly bumped/rubbed.

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THE THIN GREY MAN
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Desmond Knight.
Stock no. 1305037
1st. 1966. Hardback. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Crown Books Series. Grey/blue/black pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Light browning to half title-page and last text page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with some small tears and some slight loss, mainly top and tail of spine, there is a vertical crease to front flap.

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Front cover

Cover of THE THIN GREY MAN by Malcolm Saville

Contents

  • Rose and her brother Jimmy live by the South Coast and, like their friends John and Harry from the nearby farm, they are always out and about taking a friendly and curious interest in everything that goes on. This proves to be uncomfortable for some people because it is through the friends curiosity that certain criminal activities are uncovered.
  • Rose and JImmy never thought that such things 'happened' to them; their lives had been happily spent observing the oddities of people like Miss Alicia Brown, who owned the Sweet Briar Tea Rooms; in making friends with their local police constable, and thinking generally, that they were quite unremarkable, busy and friendly people until .............