Published in 1971 this book is in good condition for its age. It is a 1st edition. The cover and pages are clean and intact. The jacket is in fair condition: it has a couple of tears to it, it has yellowed and the edges have turned up. About the novel: The murder was quick, quiet and messy. The method was extremely efficient. The murderer left no traces, and the body had been rendered unidentifiable. The Massive force of police that opened their Murder Room in a village in an English northern county, the village where the killing had taken place, had only their usual meticulous routines to help them- and their tempers rose in frustration.