5.75" x 9", 180 page hardcover with dustjacket titled CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION: BEHIND THE SCENES IN CRIME DETECTION by H.G. Castle/ The Naldrett Press: London, First Edition, copyright 1956/ In this book, the author takes the reader behind the scenes of crime detection and describes the formidable machine which has been built up to defeat the criminal. He takes a number of famous cases and shows, step by step, how the crimes were solved. He deals with murderers, thieves, forgers and blackmailers; he introduces anarchists and would-be assassins; drug-traffickers and vice are unmasked and in a special chapter he shows how the police forces of the world co-operate in the ceaseless fight against crime. Illustrated with black and white photographs.

The book is complete and in about GOOD condition with some overall wear that includes some fairly heavy age spotting/ foxing on the top and side edges of the closed book pages. The dustjacket has some edge wear and a large 3'" tear near the top of the spine.