MITCHELL, Gladys - The Greenstone Griffins - (Hardcover in Jacket)

(Only 5 books per order allowed) - Did belong to a library before but book and wrapper survived reasonably well - Google image used.   >>>   The Greenstone Griffins is the story of Jessica Denefield, a country girl who, as a child, becomes obsessed by a pair of candle-holders in the shape of the fabulous creatures called griffins. Because of two fatal accidentsor what appear to be accidentsshe believes that the griffins have the power to work evil and her fascination with them increases. Jessica rationalises this feeling as she grows older, but the griffins continue to haunt her. In an apparent coincidence, she sees them next in a shop which shortly afterwards is burnt out in puzzling circumstances. But the griffins are not subsequently they appear in the window of a flat belonging to a mysterious French woman who once figured in the second of the deaths that occurred during Jessicas childhood. Still obsessed by the greenstone figures, Jessica calls at the flat ........