HOW THE OLD

                       WOMAN GOT HOME

                                         M. .P. SHIEL     

                                                          A Mystery Novel

First Collier Books Edition (paperback) (1961)

CONDITION:  VERY GOOD, though price on cover was blotted out with ink, and old price mark pencilled on front flyleaf.  Minor shelfwear at edges and corners.

The incredible and uproarious tale of Hazlitt and the strange people who kidnapped his old mother.

About the author:

Matthew Phipps Shiel was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name.

He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929) remains his most famous and often reprinted novel.

Comment on line:

… fast-paced mystery: “real Shiel” – “sold very widely” despite the fact that “it carried a message.”

{That’s it!  Only thing I found and could copy online.}

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