Arrest the Saint x 4

It was first published in 1939 by Hodder and Stoughton in the United Kingdom and by the Crime Club in the United States.

1941 Sun Dial Press

1951 Perma Books edition

1956 Avon edition

better image than previously posted

1957 Perma reissue – cover art by James Meese

1956 Harper hardcover, re-titled by Collins for the UK hardcover that same year as Death in Grease Paint

first of his two mysteries with Howie Rook, middle-aged, over-weight former newspaperman and draws on the author’s own experience as a clown with the Ringling Brothers Circus

cover art by James Meese

October 02, 2013