(price-clipped) [solid copy, slight fading to cloth at top/bottom edges, spine very slightly turned, light bumping to bottom corners; jacket shows light wear at edges/extremties, one small tear and associated creasing at top of rear panel, tiny chip at lower corner of front panel]. "On a dark and blustery night as Dido Twite and her friend Captain Hughes are on their way to London bearing an important dispatch for the Admiralty, the coach in which they are traveling overturns. The two soon find themselves amidst an exceedingly strange assortment of people. ... [The author] is at the top of her form in this pell-mell novel blending excitement, humor, and a pleasantly-chilling spookiness as only an Aiken story can."

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