New York: Random House, 1958

8vo, pp. 205. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt on black to spine. Hotel room number in gilt on black to front panel. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. A near fine copy in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with the very lightest of edgewear.

First edition of this collection of seven short stories, all set in the same hotel room.

One of the gentler books in the CV of one of America's pre-eminent crime specialists.