Close Quarters

New York: Walker, [1963]. First Edition. Octavo with yellow boards in blue pictorial jacket; 251 pages; illustrations; 21 cm A very good copy; unmarked pages and tight binding; occasional very faint foxing spots; boards show light rubbing to edges and bumping to corners; in very good (-) jacket with edgewear and several small chips; now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

Seems like aquite a fun read! "Close Quarters belongs to a class of mystery novel which, alas, is becoming to increasingly rare: the traditional detective story. It is a murder problem placed in a special, closed and intrinsically interesting setting--in this case, the ingrown community of a Cathedral Close. It is filled with riddles, mystifications and deceptions, yet it never departs from the rules of fair-play evidence. From poison-pen letters to clues embdedded in crossword puzzles, it employs a whole conjuror's bag of tricks expressly designed to baffle and fascinate the reader." --Jacket copy.