A Lesson in Crime by G.D.H & M. Cole Dust Jacket Only Early Reprint The Crime Club Collins c.1933. A bright VG example with publisher's price of one shilling printed to spine. Dust jacket only.

In "A Lesson in Crime," a sharp-witted short story from G.D.H. and Margaret Cole's 1933 collection, bestselling thriller author Joseph Newton encounters a smug fellow passenger on a train. The stranger, a pedantic critic, lambasts Newton's elaborate plots as unrealistic, then boasts of his own "perfect" murder: a simple, undetectable killing so foolproof it defies detection.
Intrigued yet irked, Newton listens as the man outlines the scheme in smug detail. But when the train arrives and the critic vanishes—poisoned by an innocuous dose Newton cleverly administers—the author turns the tables, committing the very crime described.
This sly, ironic tale skewers literary pretension with the Coles' signature socialist bite, blending humor and comeuppance in a compact whodunit twist.