First American edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Mild dust soiling to the jacket's rear panel.
John William Wainwright was a rear gunner in World War II, after which he spent twenty years as a policeman in Yorkshire. He wrote eighty crime novels between 1965 and 1992, sometimes under the pseudonym 'Jack Ripley'. He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.