New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950

8vo, pp. 243. Original dark blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, but a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, rear panel a little darkened and with a little light edgewear.

First edition. The twelfth and final Evan Pinkerton title, published the following year in the UK with the title Murder in the Square.

Zenith Jones Brown [1898-1983] adopted the Frome pseudonym for her first book, The Murder of An Old Man (1929), hoping to maximise sales by hiding her sex. She also wrote as Leslie Ford and Brenda Conrad.

HUBIN, p. 158