The Seven Sleepers

London: Crime Club by Collins, 1970. Octavo in red cloth in green jacket; 222 pp., 21 cm. Near fine(-) copy in very good jacket protected in mylar; DJ is lightly edgeworn with several chips especially to spine ends; very short closed tears to top edge of jacket; very small closed tear to spine head; light foxing to top and fore edges; o/w tight, square copy; cloth is clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is square; a gently loved copy. in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0802751520

In English. Abstract: The late Professor Garvie-Brown of Edinburgh, it transpired, had murdered seven wives, four bigamously, profiting by each marriage and was regarded as a wonderful man by his colleagues. What were his descendants do about this and what particularly ought they do when the Professor's eighth wife, who astonishingly, survived him, shows signs of developing a conscience and feels that his descendants should do something for a young man in London, who it has been discovered is the sole surviving grandson of one of his bigamous wives. Luke wants no help but his wealthy relations, a High Court Judge, a doctor and another professor are not sure that blackmail will not surface and Luke and a private detective are drawn into their lives and problems and to an eighth murder. SUBJECT(S)Descriptor: Bigamy -- Fiction.