The Mystery at Dead Man's Heath

viii, 244 pp. 2-page terminal publisher ad. 8vo. From the jacket: 'The blindness of a bat and its erratic behavior in the glare of a head-lamp contrived to land Lionel North and his motorcycle in that ditch - at the most desolate part of the blasted heath. Painfully he made his way to a lonely cottage, where he found, lying on the floor, the dead body of Sir Rufus Lunt, and a very live young woman who lived in the cottage but who abruptly vanished into the night. Lionel North, barrister and investigator of crime, is thus projected into the heart of England's latest murder mystery, the unraveling of which leads him into a series of strange adventures and a matching of wits with a clever, hidden criminal. Here is a detective story in the best Farjeon manner, in which the reader will find himself carried along in the excitement of a very real pursuit and an equally ingenious and surprising solution.'