New York: harper & Bros., 1950

8vo, pp. 308. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket, photographic portrait of the author to rear flap. Spine ends a little worn, but a very good copy in a very good dust jacket, small closed tear to lower edge of rear panel and with some wear to spine ends.

First edition of this detective novel set in the nineteenth century.

HUBIN, p. 67