E. C. R. Lorac - Ask A Policeman - First Edition

LORAC, E.C.R. [pseudonym of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958)].

Ask A Policeman.

London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1955.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. net to front flap.

Internally clean, a number of pages showing creases to the corner from being folded over, one gather standing marginally proud, toning to edges and endpapers, light spotting to edges, neat ownership in pen to pastedown. Cloth shows well. Dust-jacket shows very well, small closed tear to upper. An elusive title especially so in the dust-jacket. Very good.

An elderly lady reports that her journalist nephew is missing, when enquiries in Fleet Street were followed by serious accidents to two of the few potential witnesses, it becomes obvious that the murderer was dangerously active and well informed. Superintendent MacDonald investigates...