The Anathema Stone by John Buxton Hilton - 1980-05

St. Martin's Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1980. 1st ed. Slight spine slant, top of page edges dusty else near fine in dust jacket rubbed along edges. REVIEW SLIP laid in. The Derbyshire village of Spentlow, where Chief Superintendent Kenworthy and his wife had chosen to spend their autumn holiday, was in the grip of celebrations organized by he Vicar to commemorate a remarkable incumbent of a hundred years ago. It was also in the grip of a long-standing feud between two prominent families, the Allsops and the Brightmores, and of the machinations of Davina Stott, a precocious, pretty adolescent, who had a lead part in the centenary celebration play. One evening Kenworthy walked home with her from rehearsal. Next morning her body was found on the Anathema Stone. The Anathema Stone, round which superstitions clustered, had originally been part of a Bronze Age barrow, but for the last two hundred years it had lain in Farmer AIlsop's yard. Recently a local archaeological society had tried to make him restore it to… Read More

St. Martin's Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.