Gregg (Cecil Freeman) Accidental Murder
£135
London, Methuen, 1952.
First edition. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth. Dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped.
An attractively jacketed first edition of this crime thriller featuring Gregg’s recurring detective, Inspector Cuthbert Higgins.
In stock
Ink name to front free endpapers; cloth very good; jacket price-clipped, slightly chipped at spine ends, but otherwise very good.
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