London: Collins Crime Club, 1944

8vo, pp. 192. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a better than very good dust jacket with a small smudge to front flap, slight fading to spine and a little light edgewear.

First edition. A Lancelot Priestley title.

Writing under the pseudonyms Miles Burton and John Rhode, the ridiculously prolific Cecil Street [1884-1965] produced four detective novels a year for thirty-seven years -- including more than seventy Priestley titles writing as John Rhode.

HUBIN, p. 343.