Corgi, London, 1974, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-552-09694-6.  MMPB, 220 pages followed by ads.  Unread copy with just a touch of edge wear; binding tight with tanning pages.  ‘Murder isn’t a very sociable way of getting your kicks – but then, Jay Delaney was never a very sociable sort of guy…  He was young, rich, attractive and bored.  He needed excitement – and he meant to get it.  For months he had waited – patiently controlling the insane urge which nagged at his mind.  And then he saw her, at a film festival in the South of France – the blonde starlet who was to provide him with the biggest thrill of his life … the girl he intended to murder…’ (from rear wrap)