Was It Murder?

GLEN TREVOR

Publication: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933, New York and London

First U. S. edition. Originally published in England in hardcover in 1931, using the title MURDER AT SCHOOL. Pseudonym of James Hilton, who authored such famous novels as GOOD-BYE MR. CHIPS (1934), LOST HORIZON (1933), and RANDOM HARVEST (1941). WAS IT MURDER is his only crime novel and it is a Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone. The Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection page 199 says " Young Colin Revell is an "old boy," now a private detective, who returns to Oakington School to investigate the curious death of a student named Marshall. Everyone is relieved and satisfied when Revell confirms the theory that Marshall was killed accidentally by a falling gas pipe. When the student's older brother dies six months later by diving into an empty swimming pool, Revell returns to the school his credulity strained by another apparent suicide." A Harper sealed mystery with the seal broken but complete at the rear of the book. Covers lightly spotted, lettering bright else near fine in a dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine with light wear to the spine ends, corners and lower front cover extremities to the extremities.