THE CONQUEROR INN: A Bobby Owen Mystery

N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944. First US edition. Publishers dark blue cloth with white lettering, very light wear along edges else about fine in dust jacket, worn at front fold, piece out at spine foot, small chips to fold corners and head of spine. Jacket edges have been trimmed but not price clipped, $2.00 price intact [Det. Sgt. Bobby Owen; England]. The remote Conqueror Inn, possibly the oldest licensed house in England, has an unexpectedly key role to play in World War Two. Lorry drivers, army camps, black marketeers and even the IRA become entangled in the sinister web which draws this novel’s plot together. Bobby Owen, after finding a case of banknotes, has to identify a corpse mutilated in its grave, ignore the red herrings thrown in his way -- and identify a ruthless killer who uses the confusion of war to conceal his tracks. The Conqueror Inn was first published in 1943, the eighteenth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. "One of the foremost British thriller-writers here gives us a first-class mystery, replete with creeps, thrills and tingles of foreboding as one grim scene builds into another and suspicion is expertly thrown in turn against each actor in this sinister drama of greed and hate couched in wartime datelines.... A better tale of dark deeds would be hard to come by." -- Hoofs and Horns. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good-Very Good. Book.