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Hill, Lorna.
The Secret.
Publisher: Evans Brothers Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1964
Stock Code: 11877
First edition. Octavo, pp., 160. With eight monochrome illustrations by Esme Verity. Publisher’s cornflower blue cloth with gilt title to spine, mint green pictorial endpapers, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A near fine copy. The final book in Hill’s Wells series, The Secret tells the story of two orphan children, one the daughter of a Slavonian peasant, the other an heiress, but with no way of knowing which is which. As the children age the mystery deepens and recognisable characters from the other Wells series books make appearances. £60.00