Penguin, Middlesex, 1950, believe 1st pr thus.  #742.  Soft cover, 287 pages.  Wraps have some edge, corner and spine end wear, faint upper front and lower rear corner creases, age toning, short glue repaired tear at upper front spine edge, light reading creases with some colour chipping along spine edges.  ‘Eaton’ price sticker on rear wrap; binding sound with a slight bow.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘It is said that the first problem of a murderer, once he has committed the deed, is to decide what to do with the body, how to dispose of it, or at least how to give the impression that someone else has disposed of it.  No such difficulty appears to have worried Hugh Restington’s murderer.  He took his victim away with him in a cabin trunk which he lugged around from one big London station to another, taking a different taxi each time.  The police could not establish where he eventually went to, for he had vanished, trunk and all.  The question uppermost in the minds of Scotland Yard was not so much what he had done with the body – but why he had taken it with him.’ (from verso of front wrap)