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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Ex-library. Seafoam green boards with gilt stamped spine. Library pocket at rear; library rubber stamp on front free endpaper and the initials ''TBH'' stamped on title page and the top edge of the text block; bit of soiling on a few pages, else generally clean. Dust jacket a little rubbed at foot of spine; has a few very small closed edge tears, else near fine; not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. 223 pages. The southern, backwoods sheriff and investigator Jess Roden sets out to untangle the questions which arise when the body of a teenage boy washes up on the banks of the Green River, months after a tragic flood. A tale of rustic crime and corruption. Albert Benjamin Cunningham (1888-1962) was the author of 42 books, which included many mysteries, a college administrator, and a longtime professor of English. He received his doctorate (Litt.D) in 1917 from Lebanon (Ohio) University and went on to teach at Washington State University, at the State Teachers College at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and from 1929 to 1945 at Texas Tech University.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); green cloth covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; 252pp. Minor soil to the rear board; spine ends gently pushed; mild toning to the inside covers (edges); Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. Author's first novel. "The way John Bruce had met his death was the essential mystery. If he had been shot- well, any boy with a twenty-two could have done that, as Ed Lefferton immediately said, But he had been stabbed, inexpertly and cumbersomely, as if the murderer had had time for a leisurely job of it." (from first paragraph, p.1.) HUBIN, p.105.