Murder by Miss-Demeanour by Peter Carter Brown

Murder by Miss-Demeanour

by Peter Carter Brown

A Carter Brown “Lovely” Mystery

Horwitz Publications, 1956, paperback

Fair Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, tear across page 19, age toned pages and cover, markings to inside back cover and half title page, creasing, small tears and discolouration to front and spine, minor scribble to back cover (along with creasing, small tears and markings, back cover pulled from text block but still attached (see photographs)

“So I write books – and I get them published too.  Just because I’m married to my publisher’s eldest daughter is purely coincidence – I hope.  And the fact that I’m in love with his youngest daughter is only a complication.
My wife’s too busy with her charities organisation to even meet me when I come home after six months in Barbados.  But I’m used to that – the only use she has for me is when she turns up on old corpse nobody else is using.
So I have to play this close to my chest.  I don’t want to involve my wife, her sister, my father-in-law or even me.
It was a simple proposition that only the cops could take apart and did – or the murderer could take apart – and did.”