Habeas Corpus and Other Stories by Peter Green [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1964 • Signet

Habeas Corpus and Other Stories by Peter Green

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1964] SIGNET

Vintage mass market printing in very good condition.

Light wear to cover and tanning to pages.

Her body was as still as death. The vitality, the passion, were suddenly gone. She lay in the grass now like a twisted doll.

This perceptive, unpredictable tale is but one in a collection that reveals the work of a storyteller of superb and astonishing gifts.

The eight stories which the well-known novelist and critic has assembled here range over such varied subjects as the disastrous effects of a lost passport, the idiosyncrasies of an expert of Greek dialects, a visit to a haunted rectory, and the mouvemente evening of a Great Lady of the entertainment world on a Burma airfield.