GARVE, ANDREW. [PSEUD. PAUL WINTERTON]. — A Hole in the Ground.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1952. 1st edition. Ex-library. "Laurence Quilter, Labour M.P. for the West Cumbrian Division, finds by chance some underground caves on his property and enlists the help of Peter Anstey, an experienced potholer, in exploring them. Anstey meets his death in their labyrinthine depths, and this tragedy touches off a train of sinister events that can only be explained by an exploration of Quilter's equally tortuous mind." Pp.192, occasional spots and marks, ex-library inkstamps to front and rear endpapers. Red cloth, sunned and rubbed to spine and front top and lower edges.Scarce. G-.** "Paul Winterton (1908 – 2001) was an English journalist and crime novelist. During his career he used the pseudonyms Andrew Garve, Roger Bax and Paul Somers..He was a founder-member of the Crime Writers' Association during 1953 and, with Elizabeth Ferrars, its first joint secretary." (wiki).