Royal Bed for a Corpse. This item is unavailable.Royal Bed for a Corpse

Rare first edition by crime writer Max Murray, one of his series of Corpse mystery novels. In good to very good condition with only slight toning. Excellent colourful dust jacket designed by Biro, complete and not price-clipped, currently protected with removable mylar film. The orderly pattern of Visiting Day at St Martin's Prior, one of the stately homes of England, suddenly explodes when Uncle Charles, acting as guide, discovers Peter Carver lying on the hallowed Queen's Bed with a knife in his back. Brian, his nephew and heir, is picked as the murderer by the Chief Constable, but refuses to confess. Teaming up with an American newspaper girl, the accused uncovers a plan by a Communist g.