Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1947

8vo, pp. 246. Original blue boards, lettered in yellow to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Spine just a little faded, but a near fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, rear (white) panel a little marked and with a little general edgewear, most noticeable at spine ends.

First edition. The second of the author's Sam Phelan novels.

Alfred Harbage [1901-1976] was a Shakespearean scholar and English professor at Harvard University; his crime output of the 1940s is notably bloody, and often set in the world of academia.

Scarce in this condition.