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Exit to Music - Neal Shepherd
1940 UK hardcover first edition, 1st impression, Constable, London A VG indeed book sadly sans dust jacket No previous owner names Tight and square with clean contents and boards Some tanning to edges end prelims A very rare book indeed, nice 'fat' format, we have never handled another copy A few minor rubs to edges but a tidy example For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide ! |
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NOTHING could have pleased Napper Tandy better than John Farndon's invitation to the soiree at which a first performance would be given of a new Clarinet Quintet in A by Holt Linray, the young British composer. Life had been hanging rather heavily on Tandy's hands; there had been very little but the most uninteresting of routine work to do; and even Tandy's devotion to his job was not absolutely proof against the devitalizing effect of the commonplace. Probably the majority of those who came into day-to-day contact with Chief-Inspector Michael Tandy, M.D., B.Sc., never thought of him as having any social life at all, so perfectly had he identified himself with his position as head of the Police Laboratory at Hendon. This tall, retiring, grey-eyed Irishman, who had been born in Scotland and who had graduated in medicine and science in Dublin, seemed to have no interests whatsoever outside the boundaries of the niche he had carved out for himself. In the best sense, he was an enthusiast—which meant that he found relaxation in his work and made it his hobby. Moreover, a man whose special care it is to keep abreast of every new development in medicine and science in general and their forensic branches in particular has, whatever his inclinations, little enough time for what |
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