The Crime Club by Collins,, (1972). Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (some rubbing on the folds, minor edgewear). First printing. Hill's fourth crime novel - "Schoolmaster Joe Askern has made a truce with life. His interests are simple and kept within safe bounds" - until he meets Cess Carter, the friendly local criminal and father to one of Joe's more delinquent students, and he finds that he has risked everything that matters to him.