Red cloth binding with black title on the spine and front board.

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Please view our photographs: a nicely restored book. Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 122 pages. Pictorial jacket over cloth. B&W illustrations throughout. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges.Black & white illustrations by Gilbert Dunlop. 122 pages. The fourth Annabella adventure. The Annabella series was written for children who have a love for detective stories.

Mary Fitt was a pseudonym for the noted Welsh classicist, Kathleen Freeman. Kathleen Freeman (22 June 1897 – 21 February 1959) was a British classical scholar and author of detective novels. Her detective fiction was published under the pseudonym Mary Fitt. Freeman was a lecturer in Greek at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, between 1919 and 1946. Freeman enjoyed success as a writer of fiction and wrote under the pseudonyms Mary Fitt (1936–60), Stuart Mary Wick (1948; 1950), Clare St. Donat (1950) and Caroline Cory (1956).

In 1926, in addition to her study The Work and Life of Solon, Freeman published a collection of short stories The Intruder and Other Stories, and her first novel Martin Hanner. A Comedy. In 1936, she began publishing crime fiction under the pseudonym Mary Fitt, writing 27 books and a number of short stories. In 1950, she became a member of the Detection Club. Her books were critically acclaimed at the time, although since her death many have been out of print. She also wrote twelve children’s stories and T’other Miss Austen (1956), a study of Jane Austen.

In recent years, Freeman’s work has been re-assessed, especially in the light of Welsh women and modernism. Her short stories have also been described as antecedents of Kate North’s queer stories, and, as of 2019, republication of some of her short stories was planned.