Burton (Miles, pseud. Cecil Street) A Will in the Way
£180
London, Collins Crime Club, 1947.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Esther Kesgrave, long in service with the Botesdale family, returns from visiting her master – a certified lunatic confined in a mental home – to find the second Mrs Botesdale dead at the foot of the basement stairs. A post-war entry in the long Arnold and Merrion sequence, and one of the last to be issued in America before the series stopped crossing the Atlantic in 1950.
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Some rubbing and minor creasing to jacket, but overall a very good.
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