A Shadow On The Lens (Signed 1st Edition)

Sam Hurcom

ISBN 10: 1409189856 / ISBN 13: 9781409189855

Published by Orion, 2019

About this Item

Maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine. Firm unread binding (As New). Clean pages. The Jacket is not price clipped. Signed by the author to the title page. First print with the full publishers number line. Jacket is in a removable protective cover. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Shadow On The Lens (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Orion
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409189856
• ISBN 13: 9781409189855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The Postmaster looked over my shoulder. As I turned to look I saw a flicker of movement from across the street. I felt unseen eyes peer at me.
He walked away without another word. I watched as he climbed onto his bicycle and sped away down the street. I turned back and looked over my shoulder.
Someone had been watching us.

1904. Thomas Bexley, one of the first forensic photographers, is called to the sleepy and remote Welsh village of Dinas Powys, several miles down the coast from the thriving port of Cardiff. A young girl by the name of Betsan Tilny has been found murdered in the woodland - her body bound and horribly burnt. But the crime scene appears to have been staged, and worse still: the locals are reluctant to help.

As the strange case unfolds, Thomas senses a growing presence watching him, and try as he may, the villagers seem intent on keeping their secret. Then one night, in the grip of a fever, he develops the photographic plates from the crime scene in a makeshift darkroom in the cellar of his lodgings. There, he finds a face dimly visible in the photographs; a face hovering around the body of the dead girl - the face of Betsan Tilny.