The Knocker on Death's Door

First edition. 8vo. 192 pp. Publisher's green cloth boards, lettered in black to spine. Jacket design by Holmes Kitley Assoc. (priced at £1.25 net to front flap).

Front board upper corner lightly bumped, production fault discolouration spot to lower board edge, top edge dusty, scattered foxing to fore-edge, else Fine.

An Inspector George Felse mystery set in a gothic village in the English West Country. When a heavy, oak door with a purportedly mystical knocker is moved to the village church, Detective Chief Inspector George Felse must soon investigate a series of mysterious deaths supposedly linked to the knocker. Ellis Peters is the nom-de-crime of English novelist Edith Pargeter, author of more than twenty books under her own name. To commemorate Pargeter's life and work, in 1999 the CWA established their Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award (since renamed the Ellis Peters Historical Award) for the best historical crime novel of the year.