The Painswick Line is a 1951 comedy crime novel by the British writer Henry Cecil.Breen p.25 It was his debut novel and introduced the character of the drunken solicitor Mr. Tewkesbury who recurred in many of his stories.Herbert p.116
References
Bibliography Breen, Jon L. Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction. Scarecrow Press, 1999. Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.