by Eric Shepherd; Dramatized by Emmet Lavery

New York: Samuel French, (1944).

First edition, first printing: Hardcover issue.

Dated inscription, SIGNED by the playwright/screenwriter, Emmet Lavery to actress Lenore Shanewise.

Near fine in red cloth with spine titles stamped in black; in a very good, photo-pictorial dust jacket that is lightly chipped and shelfworn.

Small octavo. 186 pages; press comments; plan of production; director's report. Frontispiece photographic still.

"The police are baffled when Baroness Sliema is murdered in the convent school chapel, but the nuns and students take it in their stride and they lead Scotland Yard a merry chase."

Dramatization of the 1940 novel by Eric Shepherd.

Lenore Shanewise served as a staff director at the Pasadena Playhouse from 1923-1960. She also appeared as Mrs. Densley in the Twilight Zone episode "Kick the Can" written by George Clayton Johnson.

Quite scarce!

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