A Question of Proof

Penguin Main Series 1101. 1st Edition, 1955.

The faculty and student body at Sudeley are shocked but scarcely saddened when the headmaster’s obnoxious nephew, Algernon Wyvern-Wemyss, is found dead in a haystack on Sports Day. But when the young English master, Michael Evans, becomes a suspect in the case, he’s greatly relieved when his clever friend Nigel Strangeways, who is beginning to make a name for himself as a private inquiry agent, shows up to lend a hand to the local constabulary. Strangeways immediately wins over the students and even becomes an initiate in one of their secret societies, The Black Spot, whose members provide him with some of the information he needs to solve the case…

Condition grading: Good Minus. Foxing to front cover. Minor wear to spine ends. Some foxing and marks to rear cover. Some bumping to top right corner of rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.