London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1949. Crime Fiction FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo 19 x 13cm pp.279. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by MB priced at 9/6. A fine copy of the book in a very good jacket toned to spine with one chip to crown and a nick to the foot of spine. 'A story of murder and scandal by a master of criminal psychology' from the blurb of the Pan paperback edition. Basis for the 1963 French noir film Magnet of Doom a.k.a. An Honorable Young Man directed by Jean-Pierre Melville starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p167 2002 Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery & Detection p363-5 1976. Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction p.99 115. 1972. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949 unknown