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3rd printing. Background is the town of Bordentown, New Jersey where the exiled King of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte, and his nephew Prince Lurien Murat lived: the Prince's extravagance was so great that his wife was compelled to turn their home into a girls' boarding school - and this mystery is set years later at the same boarding school. Frontispiece and 3 other full page illustrations plus several small vignettes by Manning deV. Lee. 234 pp Good in beige cloth with brown lettering and small illustration on front cover (bookplate, binding cracked just before rear endpaper, slight fraying to ends of spine, cloth on spine slightly faded.) Much harder to find in the original thicker format Appleton-Century edition than in the later Grosset and Dunlap reprintings. .

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