Headline, London, 1996, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-7472-4843-5.  MMPB, 345 pages.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, light reading creases; scar on rear wrap from sticker removal.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘It’s 1902 and Auguste Didier finds himself reluctantly recruited for a week’s work at the Old King Cole music hall in the East End.  Ostensibly there as chef of its greasy run-down eating house, Auguste has another role:  to prevent a possible foul murder by being constant bodyguard to famous comedian Will Lamb.’ (from rear wrap)