Francis Durbridge — A Man Called Harry Brent

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this classic Francis Durbridge thriller, bringing one of his celebrated television mysteries into novel form, retaining the bright original price-clipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding. Complete with the original clipped dust wrapper.  First edition.  When Carol Vyner leaves her fiance for the mysterious Harry Brent, she becomes entangled in a murder investigation that draws Detective Inspector Alan Milton into a web of secrets and deception.  Francis Durbridge (1912-1998) was a British playwright and crime novelist, best remembered for creating the amateur detective Paul Temple, whose adventures enjoyed considerable popularity through BBC radio serials, television adaptations and novels.  In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Very slight shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrapper, very smart. Clipped. Light soiling to wraps, more apparent to pale rear panel. Slight sunning to spine. Minor edge wear resulting in one or two very small closed tears and creases to spine ends. Small tape repair to tail of spine at rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just one or two very light marks. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.