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Dodd, Mead, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1946. 8vo. [6], 184 pp. Burgundy-coloured cloth, white lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, slight bumping to couple corners, minor spotting to spine), w/ d.j. cover art of skeletal hand pointing to framed sign by H.A. Peace (minor sunning to spine, edgewear, tear to upper fore-edge of back cover, dustsoiling), VG/G- copy. First American edition of this intricate Inspector Cockrill mystery set in an English country house, published as “Suddenly at his Residence” in the UK. Brand (1907-1988) launched her mystery career with Death in High Heels, which she had originally begun writing as a former of revenge against a severely disliked coworker.