SUDDENLY AT HIS RESIDENCE

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with red titles to the spine, in the 'P.M.' illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and corners, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has small chips at the spine tips and upper right corner of the rear panel. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap). A scarce title in dustwrapper.

The author's fourth novel following 'Green for Danger' (1945) and third Inspector Cockrill mystery. Later published in America under the title 'Crooked Wreath'. This title was subsequently reissued in the British Library's Crime Classics series.