APPLEBY TALKING. Twenty-three Detective Stories.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth a touch toned to the spine tips and with light marks to the joints. The contents, with a couple of isolated marks to the fore-edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, that is a little toned to the spine and flap edges. Not price-clipped (10/6 net to the lower front flap). Scarce.

The author's first detective short fiction collection, comprising 23 stories, all of which feature Detective Inspector John Appleby. (Hubin, p.213).