THE COURSE OF JUSTICE

Hardback. Author's first novel and features Thorpe Hazell, a vegetarian amateur railway detective. Ellery Queen regarded this as "the first of the specialising detectives". Whitechurch also used Scotland Yard to vet police procedures for accuracy. 349pp. 8vo. h/back. Pictorial fr. cover (see image). With small rubber stamp 'Heigham Hall, Norwich' to ffep, tp. and bep which also has the remains of a small embossed stamp. Ffep and bep v.v. lightly browned, uncut edges o/w a Nr. F. copy of an extremely Rare detective fiction title.