New York: Charles Scribner's, 1940

8vo, pp. 245. Original cream boards, lettered in cream on green to front panel and spine. Top edge green, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Heavy offsetting to endpapers, spine a little browned, but a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some wear to corners and spine ends.

First US edition, published in the UK the same year.

American-born but UK-based Alice Campbell [1887-1955] published nineteen crime novels between 1928 and 1950: a Golden Age mystery set on an English country estate, this is one of her Inspector Headcorn titles.

Very scarce in the dust jacket.

HUBIN, p. 63.