Oxford Lending Library copy. Stamps on front endpapers & rental date stamps on rear free endpaper. Text clean in solid binding. A good reading copy. Jacket heavily rubbed with small chips on spine ends & fore edge. Rear flap detached& pasted to rear pastedown endpaper. Winner of the 4th Mary Roberts Rinehart mystery novel prize contest. Set in a "respectable" boardinghouse. Mild-mannered Mr. Tolliver solves a murder but he isn't after justice alone. It's up to Police Lieutenant Carmichael to find out what he's up to.