Burton (Miles, pseud. Cecil Street) Look Alive
£180
London, Collins Crime Club, 1949.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, unpriced suggesting for export.
An elderly woman is discovered lying dead in a hammock by her great-niece – and is then found sitting up and calmly giving an interview to reporters minutes later. The puzzle reaches Desmond Merrion, whose snooping about the neighbourhood leads him to a boathouse containing two bodies, one recent and one a skeleton. The last Miles Burton to be published in the United States, and reviewed in the New York Times as “a fine, intricate puzzle”.
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Minor spotting to extremities of text-block; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket with small chips and minor closed tears, overall very good.
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