The Man from the River by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole

COLE, G.D.H., and Margaret COLE. The Man from the River. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1928.

First US edition in fine dust jacket of this novel, jointly written by the socialist couple G.D.H and Margaret Cole.

Superintendent Henry Wilson of Scotland Yard sets off for the tranquil town of Steeple-Tollesbury, hoping for a carefree vacation. However, his plans take an unexpected turn as he discovers that all is not well in Steeple-Tollesbury…

G.D.H. Cole, a professor of social and political theory at Oxford, and Margaret Cole, an author and political reformer, were both prominent members of the Fabian Society. Together, they authored twenty-nine books of detective fiction, often set within a university or country house, with Superintendent Henry Wilson as the principal detective.

Octavo, pp. 302; near fine; green cloth, lettered in red to spine and front board, upper edge tinted purple, other edges untrimmed, green illustrated endpapers, printed dust jacket, front flaps with publisher’s decorative trim to corners (extremities slightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned).