Death by arrangement

by Laurence Meynell

Stated First American Edition bound in maroon boards. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Rubs to its spine tips and corners. The dust jacket has rubs to the spine tips and corners. Small tears and creases at the front panel's upper edge. The rear panel is dust soiled and has a faint crease along its length. Creasing to the inside rear flap.

221 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2012

About the author

Born in 1899, in Wolverhampton, Laurence Walter Meynell was the son of Herbert Meynell, chairman of Meynell and Sons Ltd., and his wife Agnes. He was educated at St. Edmund's College in Ware, Hertfordshire, and served in the artillery in WWI. He worked for an estate agency, and as a teacher, before his first novel, Mockbeggar, won a competition run by the publishers Harrap in 1924, and he turned to writing as a career. Meynell also worked as an editor, beginning in the 1950s, for the Bodley Head, and for Time and Tide. He was married twice, to novelist Shirley Darbyshire, and to Joan Belfrage, and had one daughter. He died in 1989.

Meynell is primarily remembered for his crime fiction, much of it published under his own name, but he also published children's fiction under the pseudonyms A. Stephen Tring and Valerie Baxter. He also used the pseudonyms Robert Eton and Geoffrey Ludlow.

Reviews

[Galit · Rating 4 out of 5]

The main character’s a bit of a sleaze and idk why the author felt the need to be so graphic about the murder??? But it was humorous.