THE ELK AND THE EVIDENCE: A Reverend Martin Buell Mystery

Scherf, Margaret

Published by Crime Club Doubleday, Garden City, New York,, 1952

About this Item

First Edition, so stated. Publishers orange weave cloth with green lettering. Pages are age toned else about fine in dust jacket, $2.50 price intact, small closed tear at rear, soiled at rear panel and lightly sunned at spine. Very scarce title. Dust jacket illustration by Vera Bock. Although accustomed to many unusual presents from his parishioners, the Reverend Martin Buell, an Episcopal rector in Farrington, Montana, was slightly nonplussed when he unwrapped a gift elk roast and discovered in the package a neatly severed human toe. Then a visiting hunter was reported missing in the neighborhood, and the Reverend had a hunch that the two incidents might be connected. Mystery multiplied with the sudden appearance of a strange but attractive young woman who had seen a dead man in a Pullman berth. And oddly enough her description of the corpse coincided with that of the missing hunter. As Martin pursued his private investigations of variant clues, he laid himself open to wild rumor, rebuke by his bishop, misunderstandings from his friends, and even personal peril. But after a series of dangerous adventures and humorous involvements, he had the satisfaction of proving his original hunch correct when the elk roast provided evidence which trapped a killer. Seller Inventory # 021015

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE ELK AND THE EVIDENCE: A Reverend Martin ...

Publisher: Crime Club Doubleday, Garden City, New York,

Publication Date: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Bock, Vera

Condition: Very Good-Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-Near Fine

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book