GARVE, ANDREW. [PSEUD. PAUL WINTERTON]. — No Tears for Hilda.

London: The Crime Club / Collins, 1950. 1st edition. Max Easterbrook arrives in London to discover that his best friend, kindly George Lambert, has been charged with wife-murder. Max can't believe that his friend is guilty, and tries to find evidence that will prove his innocence, but the picture is bleak, with George known to be in a love relationship with a pretty young nurse and the deceased wife, Hilda, seemingly a harmless woman without an enemy in the world. Pp.192, front free endpaper absent, cracking to inner front hinge but holding. Orange cloth, faded and soiled to spine and rear board, edges rubbed. Scarce. Fair.** 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).