8vo, pp. 256. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper with publisher's series number to spine. Small bookseller's label and school prize certificate to front pastedown, but a near fine, unread copy in a very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with just a little wear to a couple of corners and spine ends.
First edition in the second issue binding.
A late entry in Dawe's lengthy and varied CV, published in the year of his death, a crime novel from his long-running Leathermouth series.