Harper's Quine - first UK edition

by Pat McIntosh - signed

Author's first book. At the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross, Gilbert Cunningham, notary-in-training, sees not only the woman who is going to be murdered, but her murderer as well. Gil is a recently qualified lawyer whose family still expect him to enter the priesthood. When he finds the body of a young woman in the new building at Glasgow Cathedral he is asked to investigate, and identifies the corpse as the May Day harper's mistress and runaway wife of cruel, unpleasant nobleman John Semphill. Gil asks questions and seeks a murder weapon in the lanes and yards of the city, dealing with Semphill and his household, mistress and men-at-arms, the burgh constable, householders and musicians, and the mason's educated and lively daughter Alys.

Book has red boards with the title in silver on the spine. Dust wrapper is fine, price intact at £16.99.