MURDER SQUAD. Joyner, William B.

  Hugh Keartland Publishers (Johannesburg), 1968. Hardcover / Hardback. Book Condition: Good. Some edge rubbing and wear and some insect nibbles.  Occasional age-related foxing. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. 216pp. 8vo. h/back. Gift inscribed on front free end paper.

The author was Ex-Detective Head Constable Johannesburg Murder Squad, and was the first in the Murder and Robbery Squad to be awarded the Queen's Medal - the highest decoration in the Police. He retired to farm in 1959.

Chapter headings include : Plot to Kill Dr. Malan; Episode of the Nude Women; My First Murder Case; Riddle of the Locked Door; Nearly a Lynching; Murder on the Mine Dump; Honeymoon Murder Case; The Case Without a Clue; Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Five Arrests in One Day; Prisoner of War and All That; The Bandits Who Crossed the Colour Line; Clue of the Cloth Cap; How the Murder and Robbery Squad Was Born; The Man with the Diamond-Treaded Shoes; Death of a Detective; Homicide at the Neptune Dry Cleaners; Letters From the Death Cell; Life and Death of the Msomi Gang.