1st ed, 1st imp. 256pp. Red cloth boards (worn and rubbed at edges, with small indentation mid way along lower front edge). Lending sheet on front endpaper but no other library markings. Old repair to rear endpaper. In its original pictorial dust jacket (a little rubbed and chapped at extremities, lightly fraying at head of spine). When her car breaks down on the Winchester-Alton Road, April Bowden sees two men carrying a corpse from a lonely cottage. Pollard, awarded the Victoria Cross, became a prolific author in later life; once popular many of his titles are now very hard to find, especially in their original dust jackets. 12mo
