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 impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine.

A used copy, toned and spotted, likely ex library with traces of removed dockets etc. Cloth marked, rubbed and bumped. 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...