Gold Medal #227, 1954. Stated First Printing in very good condition. The lamination is peeling at various corners and at the spine. Rubbing to the edges of the wrappers. The front wrapper is pulled back from the right edge. Tanning to the page margins.
Samuel Kimball Merwin, Jr. was an American mystery fiction writer, editor and science fiction author, who published fiction mostly as Sam Merwin, Jr. His pseudonyms included Elizabeth Deare Bennett, Matt Lee, Jacques Jean Ferrat and Carter Sprague.