VINTAGE 1956 HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION. BOOK AND DUST JACKET HAS SOME FRAYING ON THE EDGES BUT OTHERWISE  IN GOOD CONDITION.-NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONS-
Digby George Gerahty, who wrote under the pen-names of Robert Standish and Stephen Lister, was an English novelist and short story writer most productive during the 1940s and 1950s. He was also a featured contributor to the Saturday Evening Post.This story opens in a frowsy,down-at-heel hotel in Cannes during the winter of 1930, when the naarrator, advertising executive David Trollope, befriends two bewildered children, while their mothers play commercial bridge to pay the hotel bills.