First edition. Original green cloth lettered in dark blue, in pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, bright and crisp with just the slightest dustiness. An exceptional copy. A collection of stories surrounding Horne Fisher, "an amateur criminal investigator who, in solving strange and intricate riddles of crime, passes through experiences as bewildering and unexpected as the most blas� reader could desire" (blurb).