"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis

London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1940. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284 [4]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Cosmological self-devouring snake bookplate to front pastedown. Small Indian bookseller's stamp to fly-leaf. Light spotting and thumbing to edges. Cloth well-worn, just starting to upper joint, with a sunned spine and rubbing and bumping to corners. Upper board slightly bowed. Good. A seaside holiday resort is terrorised by an obsessive practical joker, necessitating the intervention of private consulting detective Nigel Strangeways. Item #57123
Price: £175.00