2nd Edition 1944. Illustrated by J Abbey. The first mystery novel. Signed by the author. Wonderful Provenance: Joyce Clark, thence by descent. Joy Clark born 1937 grew up in Beaconsfield with her parents Isabella and Cecil Clark. The Clark's ran an ironmonger's shop in the town and Enid Blyton was a regular customer. For many years whenever one of her books was published, Blyton would kindly sign and give a book to Joy, who was a small child at the time. Book is just about good and quite bright. Light marking to cloth. Spine faded. Contents average some page corner loss and a number of illustrations pages are lightly coloured in. Some pages lightly marked in places.