The Night of the Scorpion

Publisher’s purple half cloth boards with silver lettering to spine and blue paper sides. SIGNED and dated (30/1/85) to title page. In Tom Kidd illustrated dust jacket, clipped to top corner of the front flap. Small price sticker of $12.95 to top of the lower panel. Stated First American Edition.*** Early novel by Anthony Horowitz, the second in his Pentagram series and a follow-up to The Devil’s Door-Bell (1983). The series was left unfinished in the 1980s, but the author restarted it from scratch twenty years later in a re-imagined version known as The Power of Five (or The Gatekeepers in the USA).