Take Two At Bedtime. Wanted: Someone Innocent and Last Act

Allingham, Margery

ISBN 10: 0434018848 / ISBN 13: 9780434018840

Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1989

About this Item

First published in 1950, this is fifth impression reissue of 1989. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£10.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks almost unread. 187pp. Two mysteries in one volume. 'Wanted, someone innocent' tells the story of Gillian Brayton, young, attractive and naive, who accepts a job in the home of an ex school friend and feels threatened by unknown evil. The second story, 'Last act', is a perceptive picture of two actresses, one of whom meets with a mysterious death Denis, her grandson, has been heard to threaten to kill her but the obvious solution is not always the right one. Quite scarce, even in this later impression.

Seller Inventory # 010792

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Take Two At Bedtime. Wanted: Someone Innocent and Last Act
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0434018848
• ISBN 13: 9780434018840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jacket by Third Party Art
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Two stories of tension and suspense. One concerns a young woman hired as "a sort of social secretary", but who has no idea of the atmosphere of evil that goes with the job. The other concerns the last act in the career of an old French actress, who names her murderer before the final curtain.