New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927

8vo, pp. 343, 2 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Leading edge uncut. Original black boards, lettered in green to front panel and spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown, ownership signature to front free endpaper. A well preserved copy.

First edition. A Philo Vance title, the second of twelve.

HUBIN, p. 414