Quarto. 56, 49,38pp, [1], v ff. Stapled, ass issued, in original publisher's printed green wrappers. Extremities marked, creased, and chipped, fastening rusted. Scattered spotting. Marked 'Producer's Copy' in manuscript to upper wrappers, occasional manuscript annotations/corrections to text.

An apparently unrecorded typescript of a three-act mystery comedy by playwright Ronald Jeans (1887-1973) in which protagonist Martin Tracey, in a desperate plea to secure his ancestral Hertfordshire estate from an unscrupulous lord, engages the services of a ghost to haunt the mansion and drive its current occupant out. Having succeeded in his task, the spectre-for-hire resolves to stay and haunt Tracey.

The play, of which little trace survives, was evidently professionally staged on only two occasions; firstly at the Whitehall Theatre in 1937, and, following a successful run, at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre, New York in 1941. There the play did not enjoy the commercial nor critical success it had in London; panned by the press it ran for only six performances and resulted in a loss of $16,000 for the theatre's manager Alexander Cohen who had selected it as the opening production for the recently reinvigorated venue. The theatre was never used again. It would seem that Pinker's Play Bureau secured the amateur rights in 1938. This appears to be the only time the play was published.