Manor, New York, 1977.  ISBN 0-532-12477-7.  MMPB, 192 pages.  Wraps have edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases, age toning; binding sound with a slight lean.  Book store stamp on top page block, numbers and letters stamped at upper fore-edge block, touch of soil on bottom.  Book store stamp on page 7 and last page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; a bit of scraping to some pages on fore-edge.  ‘Mr. Campion stood for a long time looking through the telescope and enjoying the view.  …  And then he saw it.  About half a mile away, in the middle of a field waist high in green corn, there was a dilapidated scarecrow, a grotesque, unnatural creature set up to terrify the rooks.  But about this effigy there was a difference.  Far from being frightened, the rooks were swarming upon it.  The terrible thing was hoisted on a piece of broken paling, and the green corn whispered around it.  Mr. Hayhoe had been found and he was not a pretty sight … there was a wound in his neck which had severed the jugular …’ (from rear wrap)