British Library crime classics

"First published in 1946 by Collins, London"--Title page verso

"While hot on the heels of serial coupon-racketeer Gordon Ginner, Chief Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard receives word of a peculiar incident up in Lancashire-the fishing cottage of a local farmer has been broken into, with an assortment of seemingly random items missing, which include a reel of salmon line, a large sack, and two iron dogs (or andirons) from his fireplace. This incident becomes all the more enticing to Macdonald when a body is found in the River Lune not far from the cottage in question-the body of Gordon Ginner"--