Fitzsimmons (Cortland) Sudden Silence:
£375
The Case of the Murdered Band Leader
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1939.
First UK edition. 8vo. 2pp. advertisements. Original teal cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s6d.
Set in the glittering background of an ultra-modern night club in San Francisco, peopled by famous stars, Sudden Silence has an interest rivalled only by the strangeness of its incidents. (jacket).
In stock
Ownership note to front free endpaper; jacket spine slightly sunned, a little rubbed at corners.
Jacket artwork by James Arnold.
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