The Serpent in the Garden - first UK edition

by Janet Gleeson - signed

It is summer in 1765 and the portrait painter Joshua Pope has been commissioned to paint a wedding portrait for Herbert Bentnick and his bride-to-be, Sabine Mercier. When a body is found in the vast conservatory

Book has red boards with the title stamped in gold. Signed on the title page by the author. Book has been read once carefully.

Jacket has always been protected, price intact at £12.99