Conyth Little, The Black Eye, first edition, 1946
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Little (Conyth [i.e. Constance & Gwenyth]) The Black Eye

£150

London, Collins Crime Club, 1946.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.

Eugenia Gates arrives at her friend Mary Fredon’s apartment for a fortnight’s quiet holiday and finds every prospect of rest destroyed – and then the bodies begin to appear… “Conyth Little” is a portmanteau pseudonym used on the British editions for the Australian-born sisters Jessie Constance Little (1899-1980) and Norma Gwenyth Little (1903-85), who produced twenty-one mysteries between them in a screwball-comedy register, all but the first with “black” in the title and a corresponding black clue in the plot.

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Minor toning/sunning to extremities of cloth; jacket spine sunned with some wear to ends.

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