Harper & Row, New York, 1980, 1^st US ed/pr.  ISBN 0-06-011086-4.  Hard cover, 278 pages.  Near fine; spine ends lightly pushed.  Price-clipped dust jacket shows a bit of corner and spine end wear, tiny tears, tape repair at spine head on verso; shallow creasing at head of inner front flap.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  ‘When one’s cousin, a cousin one is fond of, is accused of a bizarre murder, and one is considered the head of one’s family, one has to do something. … Stephanos knew where he could go for earthly advice, aid, and comfort – to the man in Athens he most admired, who for all his eminence would not turn Stephanos away – he’d go to talk to Aristotle, his former tutor.  Young Stephanos and Aristotle soon became partners in detection, and worked, against sinister opponents, to unravel the mysterious murder and to uncover the real culprit.’ (from jacket flaps)