Penguin Main Series 819. 1st edition, published 1951.
Avory Hume is found stabbed to death with an arrow - in a study with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door locked from the inside. In the same room James Caplon Answell lies unconscious, his clothes disordered as though from a struggle, his fingerprints on the damning arrow. Here is the unique Carter Dickson "impossible situation" - yet the great, explosive Sir Henry Merrivale gets down to serious sleuthing and at last startles the crowd in the Old Bailey with a reconstruction of the crime along logical, convincing lines.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Some creasing to spine. Minor wear to ends of spine and cover edges. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Series 819. 1st edition, published 1951.
Avory Hume is found stabbed to death with an arrow - in a study with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door locked from the inside. In the same room James Caplon Answell lies unconscious, his clothes disordered as though from a struggle, his fingerprints on the damning arrow. Here is the unique Carter Dickson "impossible situation" - yet the great, explosive Sir Henry Merrivale gets down to serious sleuthing and at last startles the crowd in the Old Bailey with a reconstruction of the crime along logical, convincing lines.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Some creasing to spine. Minor wear to ends of spine and cover edges. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
