Ordeal by Innocence

HarperCollins, 1996-01-08. 1st Edn, 2nd. Imp.. Paperback. VG++/VG+/ND. Box X39 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1993 (1958) * Publisher: Harper Collins Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing aman in a coat with a case overlooking a harbour with a bell behind him. Orange and white titles to strip and face. No shelf wear to edges, corners or to head & tail of spine. Very slight creases to front cover, none to spine. VG+.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No paper colouration except to top edges. VG++ * Illustrations: B/w photo of author to inside of front cover otherwise none.* Pages: 218 pp. text. vii ads and notes at rear. * Description:- Jacko Argyle dies in prison while serving a sentence for killing his adoptive mother Rachel Argyle. His own widow, Maureen, believed him to have been responsible. Jacko's alibi failed when police could not find the man who had given him a ride to the next town as the murder was happening. Two years later, Jacko's alibi suddenly appears and the family must come to terms not only with the fact that Jacko was innocent, but also with suspicion falling upon each of them as the real murderer. Some realize there is a murderer living among them, raising tensions among the family. Suspicions fall on his father, his brother, his sisters, even his father’s secretary and the long-time housekeeper, as the new investigations proceed. This novel was first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in 1958.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with minimal age reducing it to VG+.*