THE CORPSE IN THE GREEN PYJAMAS: A Philip Tolefree Mystery

Walling, R.A.J.

Published by Triangle Books, N.Y., 1939

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6th printing, February 1939, same month and year as the first Triangle printing, obviously a tremendously popular book! Pages age toned, endpapers darkened else very good in dust jacket worn at folds, shallow loss at top of spine, fraying at extremities Philip Tolefree; England "Over here we call them pajamas, but this story is laid in England, where the Anglo-Indian spelling is preferred. Mr. Tolefree, who has been summoned to Wolborough Castle because of an unpleasant experience that befell his friend Isaac Stratton during a visit there, finds the corpse in the green nightwear in a secret passage opening off his room. A little later on the body has disappeared, and an effort is being made to convince Tolefree that he has been having hallucinations. Tolefree knows better, but there is nothing, for the moment, that he can do about it. There is no way in which he can prove that there was a corpse, and he has no legal authority to search for it. However, he knows what he knows, and when the same corpse turns up at some distance from the castle be is determined to find out how it got there and who killed the man whose taste in sleeping garments was so bizarre. The first thing that Tolefree discovers is that several persons, including his client, are either lying or withholding part of the truth, thus obstructing not so much Tolefree's investigations as those being carried on by the local authorities. In the end Tolefree presents, without being able to prove it correct, his theory of what has happened. What the authorities do about it we are not told, but it is a beautiful theory, except for a few facts which do not fit in and which both the author and his detective appear to have overlooked. We leave it to the reader to discover what these facts are and to consider whether they can possibly be explained away. Except for these minor flaws, the story is fully up to Mr. Walling's high standard of excellence." -- New York Times Book Review February 10, 1935,

Seller Inventory # 021397

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CORPSE IN THE GREEN PYJAMAS: A Philip Tolefree Mystery
• Publisher: Triangle Books, N.Y.
• Publication Date: 1939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Gorska
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Golden Age
  • England
  • Mystery and Detective