Heads You Lose

Author: Christianna Brand (PSEUD Mary Christianna Lewis) 1907-1988)

Year: 1942

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company

Place: New York

Description:

248 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 2/3") bound in original publisher's black cloth with purple lettering to spine and Red Badge pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. First American edition.

Heads You Lose is a 1941 crime mystery novel by the British writer Christianna Brand. It was her second novel following her successful debut Death in High Heels and the first to feature Inspector Cockrill of the Kent Police Force.

Cockrill is called in to a country house in wartime Britain where two murders are committed amongst several guests of the local squire.

Condition:

Jacket edgeworn, chipped at extremities, closed edge tears, soiled else good to very good.