And Then Put out the Light

E-006: Doubleday. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, New York. 1950. 221 pgs. Originally published in London in 1949 under title: Policemen in the precinct. Robert MacDonald #33. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine ends chipped and worn). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Endpapers lightly foxed and offset. Text block toned. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "It was really no concern of Mrs. Mayden whether Gillian Arkholme has spent a weekend at the Powys Arms with a married man or not, or that Alison Bentham was in love with her best friend's husband, or even that Dean's wife bought her meat on the black market. But sick, silly Mrs. Mayden had nothing better to do than ferret out all of Paulborough's sins and blazon them abroad. Then suddenly Mrs. Mayden was dead. 'Heart failure' said the doctor. 'Murder' said the town and began to look suspiciously at Gillian who had not only the motive but by far the best opportunity . Paulborough was an old and lovely town nestled in the shadows of its ancient Norman Abbey. On the surface, a godly town, but underneath simmered a brew of innuendo and hatred that boiled over into a spate of murders." Edith Caroline Rivett (who wrote under the pseudonyms E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac, Carol Rivett, Mary le Bourne. ) was a British crime writer. She was born in Hendon, Middlesex (now London). She attended the South Hampstead High School, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. She was a member of the Detection Club. She was a very prolific writer, having written forty-eight mysteries under her first pen name, and twenty-three under her second. She was an important author of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. E-006; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 221 pages .