Lawrence (Margery H.) Madam Holle, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1934.

Lawrence (Margery H.) Madam Holle, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little rubbed, dust-jacket, spine a little faded, spine ends and corners chipped, short tears and creasing to head and foot, tape repairs to head, rubbing to extremities, 8vo, 1934.

⁂ A macabre and rare title from Lawrence, especially so inscribed and in the dust-jacket. A delightfully sinister mystery thriller, set in Cornwall, involving a young sadist and his mother, Madam Holle, who after years of haphazardly coping with her son's sexual excesses settles on the scheme of buying a lonely house, populating it with servants with criminal records and advertising for pretty young victims, who in due course she murders when he is bored with them or they become too troublesome.