SIMPSON, DOROTHY. — No Laughing Matter

London: Michael Joseph, 1993. 0718137086. 1st edition. Dorothy Simpson's twelfth criime novel. "When Inspector Thanet of Kent CID is called to the laboratory at a local Kentish vineyard he finds a horrifying scene. Broken glass everywhere, in chunks, shards and splinters. And blood. Blood glistening on the pieces of glass, on the shirt-front of the man lying slumped against the wall." Pp.263, slight toning to pages. Green cloth, dustwrapper has edge wear with chipped losses to top and tail of spine. VG/G+.