Eisner Harold (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good dj. Book Club Edition. [a good sound copy, light shelfwear, spine slightly turned, minor soiling to edges of text block, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase and brief comment written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap); the jacket is modestly edgeworn, internally tape-reinforced along the top and bottom edges, and with tiny bits of paper loss at several corners]. Superintendent Littlejohn hurries north to "the pretty Cheshire village of Rushton Inferior," where his friend and faithful assistant Sergeant Cromwell is lying in hospital, after having been shot in the head while attending his uncle's funeral -- wounded by (as the attending surgeon informs the Superintendent) "the smallest bullet he has ever seen -- a shot from a pop-gun, in fact!" In the course of his investigation, Littlejohn "unravels a series of stories and incidents, some comic, others tragic in the extreme, which finally lead to a solution of the case.". Illustrated by (dj) Eisner (illustrator).…