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The Secret Of High Eldersham. MILES BURTON

The Secret Of High Eldersham.

MILES BURTON

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Publication: The Mystery League, Inc, Publishers, 1931, New York

First U. S. edition. Fifteenth book in the series. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, with a tiny closed tear to top edge of front cover. A Mystery League thriller set in rural England where the owner of a small tavern in little High Eldersham, is found brutally murdered. Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector, upon his initial investigation, discovers a series of weird clues that results in him sending for a criminologist. Both are warned by the local police that "strangers don't never prosper in High Eldersham," and the tavern owner had been a "stranger." Dust jacket art by "Gene."

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