1st ed, 1st imp [1943]. 188pp. Book produced to Wat Economy Standards. Orange publisher's cloth boards (worn, a few marks, and rubbed at edges, rounded at corners). Lending sheet on front endpaper but no other library markings. Spotting on well-thumbed pages. Dusty edges. In its original pictorial dust jacket (rubbed at edges, chapped along upper edge, generally worn). From the author of Wednesday at Noon, When Death Walks etc. "No writer is more practised in the art of holding the reader in thrall".
