Trouble A-Brewing. A Novel of Detection - John Bude (Pseud. Ernest Carpenter Elmore) 1946 - Macdonald and Co.(Publishers) Ltd., London - First Edition An exceptional example of this scarce first edition, in the dust jacket without price-clipping and only a little colour touch-up to spine and outer corners.

Featuring Chief Inspector Meredith who ‘
proves himself more than a match for any murderer; even for one who first poisons his victim and then hides the body in a hogshead of beer’.
  First edition with ‘Death in Ambush’ (1945) listed as most recent publication opposite title page, and no later printings listed to verso of title page.

Ernest Carpenter Elmore (1901-53), prolific British crime writer, stage director and producer, wrote under the pseudonym John Bude, and founded the Crime Writers Association in 1953.

Reference: Reilly, ’
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 219.

Octavo (book size 19x13cm), pp. vii [1] 9-191 [1]. In publisher’s grey blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Dust jacket priced ‘8/6 net’ to lower corner of front flap, and with colour touch-up to outer corners of front panel, spine with colour-touch up and small amount of paper restoration to ends.
  Condition: Spotting along outer edges else fine, in near fine dust jacket, with colour touch up to outer corners of front panel, spine with colour touch up and small amount of paper restoration to ends.   Ref: 110435   Price: HK$ 3,000