1939 First Edition. 8vo. 251pp. Blue cloth, colour blocked label to spine worn, corner bumped, slight wear to top and bottom of spine. Inscription to verso of front cover.

(The first book in the Fergus O’Breen series)  In this “entertaining yarn,” the first to feature Fergus O’Breen, Col. Theodore Rand has received a strange telegram from his friend Humphrey Garnett (Kirkus Reviews). “You may be invaluable witness at inquest on my body,” it reads. A retired man of leisure, Rand opts to indulge what he thinks is his friend’s whim, flying from New York to Garnett’s home in Los Angeles – only to find Garnett dead upon his arrival.