copyright 1954; by Richard and Frances Lockridge; J.B. Lippincott Company publishers, Philadelphia; hardbound, Book Club Edition; very good condition of book with tight binding; inside front is a bookstore stamp and price (pic); dust jacket good-fair with minor edge wear and back jacket creases (pic).
 
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Captain Heimrich has a beef with a killer after getting a bum steer in this mystery from the authors of the “excellent” Mr. and Mrs. North series (The New Yorker).
 
Capt. M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there’s no lead the intrepid investigator won’t follow until his every hunch is satisfied...