New York: Random House, 1955

8vo, pp. 247. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Publisher's device to front panel. Top edge grey. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, rear (white) panel just a little marked.

First edition.

Occasional crime writer Harry Kurnitz [1908-1968] was better known as a Hollywood screenwriter: he wrote vehicles for Errol Flynn and Danny Kaye, and shares a writing credit with Billy Wilder on Witness for the Prosecution (1957).