Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1942

8vo, pp. 306. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Top edge red, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Heavy offsetting to endpapers and age-toning to edges of text block, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, chipped with a little loss to top edge and spine ends.

First edition of the authors' first novel.

Sisters Martha and Mary Ellen Mannon published three books under the name M.M. Mannon, this title and Murder on the Program (1944) featuring Sheriff George White in the central sleuthing role. A third novel, The Corpse in the Elevator, appeared in 1956.

HUBIN, p. 279.