The Box Hill Murder

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean copy, light wear to extremities; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a handful of nicks at the bottom of the front panel, minor paper loss to the spine extremities, and some color-shifting to the spine]. "Someone killed Susan Wheeler by breaking her neck, hid her body in a country lane, and made off with the contents of her purse -- a vulgar enough crime on the surface. By what is a masterpice of actual and deductive sleuthing, two young men prove that it was motivitated by long-dead scandals and smothered hatreds, pin the crime on the proper peson among a number of suspects, and finally run their quarry to earth in the network of streets that border on the London docks." .