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Rare and modern books

Bridge,Ann (Mary Dolling Sanders, Lady O'Malley)

The Numbered Account

Chatto & Windus., 1960

21.00 €

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Year of publication
1960
Place of printing
London
Author
Bridge,Ann (Mary Dolling Sanders, Lady O'Malley)
Publishers
Chatto & Windus.
Edition
1st UK Edition
Keyword
SWITZERLAND SWISS BANKS FICTION ESPIONAGE GREEKS IN FICTION
Cover description
Near Fine - Price Clipped
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Julia Probyn gets involved in an intriguing suspense story, set in Switzerland, about the fortune left by a Greek shippinng magnate. Vintage Pbk. Ann Bridge has written a number of novels set in interesting locations, which she knew well as the wife of a diplomat and which she describes well. Although the social ambiance of her early works (1930's) may reflect the attitudes of that time, those set in later periods display characters with an appalling assumption of social superiority and of patronising condescension that seems totally inappropriate in the modern world, and which make the stories seem rather too dated in style.