THE WITCH OF LOW TIDE: An Edwardian Melodrama

N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1963. 1st paperback printing, June 1963, so stated. Bantam # J-2559. Reading crease. Very light weat at edges, one small crease and a stamped number at top of page edges, else a near fine copy. Vintage paperback. Carr, the grand master of the "locked room" mystery, provides a puzzle involving a woman murdered at the edge of the sea where no footprints except her own came near her bodyLady Betty Calder is a prostitute and a blackmailer - or is it her sister, Glynis, using her name Dr David Garth, her fianc, knows he must find out the truth - especially when he blunders across Glynis' strangled body on Betty's property.The police know she did it, but David knows she didn't, and he must outwit a cunning murderer and a hostile detective-inspector to prove it. What he discovers - about his best friend's wife, his medical assistant, and even his fiance - make him wish the blackmailing Glynis had never lived. 'John Dickson Carr's flair for the impossible crime shows through at its very best in this historical puzzler' The Times. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Vintage Paperback.