By F. Tennyson Jesse, pen name of Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.,1934.

First U.S. edition, first printing.

"First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1934 date in Roman numerals to the title page.

The journalist, criminologist, and author's most famous work is a fictionalized mystery based on the actual true crime case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters who were a couple tried and executed for the murder of Thompson's husband Percy.

Jesse's detection methods of categorizing types of killers by motives that comprise gain, jealousy, revenge, elimination, conviction, and lust of killing, have been influential for classification ever since.

The basis for the 1973 TV film that was adapted to Sara Waters' novel PAYING GUESTS.

A cornerstone classic mystery.

Minor, small tan stain spots to the margin areas of the first 9 pages, very mild soil spots to the covers, tanning to the end-papers, slight rubbing to the lower shelf-edges and corner tips, wear and tiny tears to the upper and lower spine edges, else sturdy, sound and about very good in polished blue linen with silver titles and rules, and a reverse blue row of houses and walker illustration to a black panel to the spine; lacking a dust jacket.

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