Copy of 'Beautiful Shadow' arrives (biography of Patricia Highsmith) with dog-eared pages, creased spine, a bookmark of a retriever puppy between pp 440-441. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to realise this isn't a 'new' copy as stated. In addition, the copy of 'The Talented Mr Ripley' has a tear from the front cover down the edge to page 33. Bullet damage? I wonder.

"If you knew the books a man wanted, you knew the man" it states (p10) quoting Highsmith.