The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig [FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION] 1974

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1974] COWARD MCCANN & GEOGHEGAN  Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Dust jacket has some heavy creasing to lower front; a few sealed edge tears and some general wear.   Book itself is excellent; clean leatherette boards.  Some tan lines to endpapers.  Reads as new.  Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says. No one had seen the poet, Leslie Jacobs, for a long time, and though the pungent aroma of Gauloise filled the parlor with intimations of his presence, no one was certain he was there:Not Mrs. Hallet, the real estate agent who'd rented the old house to the eminent English poet and his d