New York: Avalon Books, 1965

8vo, pp. 190. Original grey boards, lettered in dark red to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine, slightly undersized dust jacket.

First edition of the author's second novel.

Charlotte MacLeod [1922-2005] was co-founder and President of the American Crime Writers' League, winner of the Nero Award (for The Corpse in Oozark's Pond (1987)), and the author of more than thirty crime novels.

Scarce, and fine.