The Six Queer Things, by C[hristopher] St John Sprigg, pub. Herbert Jenkins, 1937, first edition. Octavo. 312 pp. Orange cloth, mild darkening to the spine and margins and a touch of colour loss at the foot of the front panel. Internally good, without inscriptions, and only mild foxing to the first and last few pages. A mystery/crime tale with a spiritualist theme. A mysterious character known as 'The Director' is behind a complicated - somewhat bonkers - conspiracy involving a corrupt medium (very much not what they seem!), a shady asylum and a Psychoanalyst, who may or may not be on the side of the Angels. Sprigg [1907-1937] an aviation journalist and author who was also a writer on Marxist themes under the name 'Christopher Caudwell' died aged only 30, in Spain fighting with the International Brigades. He wrote eight crime novels, this last one being published posthumously. He was very highly rated as a Marxist thinker and writer by his contemporaries. His eight crime novels show great inventiveness, and had he lived, he would, in all likelihood, have contributed much to the genre.