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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Barry Glyn (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£3.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 248pp. On a cloudy, windswept day in mid-October, the fabulous steam yacht DOLPHIN eased out of Falmouth harbor and the Dolphin summer began. An elaborate dream concocted by a multimillionaire for his invalid ward, it was to be a season of endless warm Mediterranean breezes as the DOLPHIN, a floating symbol of wealth and power, transported its opulently comfortable passengers to exotic ports of call in northern Africa. Into this floating dream world of marble, mahogany, and velvet came young Annabel Trewella to assume the post of companion to the invalid Melloney Lumley. For the poor orphan girl who had never been beyond her native Cornwall, it seemed the chance of a lifetime. But from the beginning, there was something dangerously false about the DOLPHIN summer, and very soon after Annabel's arrival, the nightmares began. For behind its gracious and glittering facade, the DOLPHIN hid dark secrets destined to shatter the lives of its passengers and to plunge Annabel Trewella into the most dangerous adventure of her life. John Michael Butterworth (1924-86), was a British comic book writer, author and artist, best known for his comic strips. Butterworth also turned his hand to Gothic romance novels under the pen name Carola Salisbury. Sadly he died of a heart attack at the age of 62. Seller Inventory # 010071