Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 250 p. Lady Adelaide Mysteries, 1.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 250 p. Lady Adelaide Mysteries, 1.

Fine fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. First editon, first

Fine fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. First editon, first printing. SIGNED BY ROBINSON ON THE TITLE PAGE. Hardcover. 241 pp. The first in the series ofEnglish cozy mystery novels featuring Lady Adelaide Compton. In this debut, it's 1924 and Lady Adelaide has recently interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. The Major met his end by crashing his sportscar on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French madamoiselle in the passenger seat. The less-than-grieving widow throws a weekend party but Rupert turns up in the form of a spirit who has to perform a few good deeds before being admitted to heaven (or as Addie thinks, hell). But a murder disrupts the proceedings. Which of her twelve houseguests is a killer?