Lee (Austin) Miss Hogg and the Brontë Murders
£150
London, Jonathan Cape, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 13s.6d.
A very good first edition of this murder mystery, featuring series character Miss Hogg and her faithful chum Milly Brown, and a lost manuscript by Emily Brontë… Austin Lee was a prolific author, also writing under the pseudonyms John Austwick and Julian Callender.
In stock
VG;VG.
Jacket artwork by C.W.B.
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