The Spanish Steps by Paul McGuire

McGUIRE, Paul. The Spanish Steps. London, William Heinemann, 1940.

Scarce first edition of this detective story set in 1930s Rome.

Reporter Tony Grant finds himself standing atop the Spanish Steps in Rome when a beautiful young woman approaches him, claiming past acquaintance...

McGuire was an Australian diplomat and author. His works include several detective stories, a book of verse, and an essay on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. After the war, he relocated to Rome where he assumed the role of Australian Ambassador to Italy.

Octavo, pp. 282; near fine; orange cloth, lettered in black to spine, with the original printed dust jacket (spine of jacket lightly sunned, jacket clipped to lower corner of front flap).