Physical description

246p. ; black cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front cover

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Stamp 'Hallowell's Library Bacchus Marsh' ; stamp 'Mooroopna Mechanics Hall & Free Library'; stamp 'The Roundabout Book Club North Caulfield'

Summary

A new Gardner character - Bill Eldon! These two stories each with a crime so calculated, so cold-blooded, that it came near being perfect - will establish human, kindly Sheriff Eldon as a dangerous rival for Perry Mason and Doug Selby. First. Sam Beckett found the body of a girl lying face down in a ploughed field. She was beautiful - and a stranger. And there were no tracks in the soft earth around her. Second. When they found all that remained of Lorraine Calhoun, her head caved in by the hoof of a restive mare, Calhoun said it was an accident and the district attorney agreed. But Bill Eldon thought it was murder.