Poison for Teacher is journalist and radio personality Nancy Spain’s best-known mystery novel, featuring an amateur detective ballerina, and a girls’ school called “Radcliff Hall.” Spain gives more than a nod to the writer Radclyffe Hall, author of the milestone lesbian novel, The Well of Lonlieness. Inscribed by author "Dear Tanya I cannot believe that you will like (or have time to read) this very silly book from your new pen friend Nancy Spain November 1949".

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1949. 287 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Repairs to jacket. Slightly foxed.