260pp. Plum cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth slightly indented at spine head. Hint of page toning else neat, clean and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, lightly bumped along upper edge. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
When this collection of stories first appeared in 1946, it established de la Torre as a master of crime fiction and mystery stories. Long out of print, this is a reissue from Macmillan in 1985.
