Death of a Gay Dog

First edition. 8vo. Pp. 191, [1]. Turquoise cloth boards, lettered in black to spine. Jacket design by George Hardie (priced at £1.50 net to front flap).

Light shelf-wear to boards, tiny brown spot to bottom of textblock edge, minute closed tear to lower d/w panel which displays a trace of tanning to extremities, else Fine. Exceptionally scarce.

Art expert, Sir Maddox Brand, is poisoned following a series of house burglaries in the Burleigh area, in which the resulting loot is being returned to insurance companies for reward. Tessa Crichton, the brash young actress and amateur sleuth is on to the case. Third in the series of murder mysteries penned by Felicity Shaw (1916–1989), under the pseudonym of Anne Morice. "An ingenious plot and good entertainment value – the type of whodunit that can safely be read late at night without fear of nightmares." –Woman's Journal