The Cask

Condition: Acceptable

No dust jacket. Boards show wear consistent with age. Pages tanned but all intact. A sound reading copy.

"When a cask is unloaded at a London wharf and a woman's hand is glimpsed inside, Inspector Burnley of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. The trail leads to Paris and back, involving meticulous reconstruction of timetables and movements in a case that exemplifies the procedural detective novel at its most ingenious. The debut novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, and one of the founding texts of the alibi-breaking school of detective fiction."

Hardback, undated. No dust jacket. Wear and age tanning consistent with a vintage copy.