Publication: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1946, New York and London
First edition. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities. A Professor Hatfield mystery by the author of "Don't Look Behind You!" and "You'll Be Sorry!" Just how did Ronny Travers die, alone and bedridden in his room on the frigid third floor of Dr. Chardwicke's sprawling old house in Woodside? The once highly esteemed scientist assures his new boarder--handsome medical student John Frazer, late of the U.S. Navy--that nothing sinister is afoot in the house's halls, but has Dr. Chardwicke ever really recovered from that nervous breakdown he had a decade ago? John's uncle, Professor Hatfield, who recently untangled that unspeakable affair at Valley Farm and by his own admission has a peculiar taste for the macabre, has his doubts. What deathly menace waits within the Chardwicke house--and will the fatally inquisitive John Frazer become its next victim?
Inventory Number: 50403