1st edition, 1st printing [1943]. 158pp. Brown publisher's cloth boards (rubbed and worn at extremities, heavily marked on front panel, a little sunned on spine). Internally a little light spotting, affecting endpaper and text block edge mostly, else neat, clean, bright and tight. Lacks dust jacket. A thumpingly-good, amusing detective thriller from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction write by the married duo Pamela Hansford Johnson and Gordon Stuart, under the pen name Nap Lombard. Subsequently published in the US under the title The Grinning Pig. A scarce title.
