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Duke (Winifred) Six Trials:
£150
A Medical Miscreant; The Perfect Murder; The Riddle of Rumsey House; The Double Acquittal; The Farmer’s Wife; Rex Versus Robert Wood
London, Gollancz, 1934.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/- to spine with price sticker 2/-.
Winifred Duke was well known both as a novelist and as an editor for the book series, Notable British Trials. The gift inscription present is from the prominent British court reporter and author Edward Spencer Shew, renowned for his detailed accounts of murder trials in the early to mid-20th century, and his books A Companion to Murder (1960) and A Second Companion to Murder (1961).
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Contemporary gift inscription and ownership blind-stampto front endpaper; cloth a little frayed at extremities; jacket with some chipping and minor marking.
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