Be Careful What You Wish For

London: Pan Books. Very Good. 2014. Reprint; Third Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cover corner creases, light shelf wear with slight loss to cover gilding, paper lightly edge toned. ; Third printing of Pan paperback edition, 2014. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design uncredited with images courtesy of Roger-Violett/Rex Features and PA Archive/Press Association Images. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Clifton Chronicles; Vol. 4; 480 pages; Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rush to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the devious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham. Meanwhile in London, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica's future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice. .