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This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1961 by John Gifford. Read once very carefully.
SYNOPSIS: “A decent hardworking chap, with not an enemy anywhere. People were surprised that anybody should want to kill Jim.
But Jim has been been found stabbed in the back near Ely, miles from his Yorkshire home. His body, clearly dumped in the usually silent (‘dumb’) river, has been discovered before the killer intended – disturbed by a torrential flood in the night.
Roused from a comfortable night’s sleep, Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is soon at the scene…”
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