Farjeon (J. Jefferson) Room Number Six
£135
London, Collins Crime Club, 1941.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
Room Number Six (Crime Club no. 211 in the series) is a chase-and-romance mystery in prolific author Farjeon’s characteristically Hitchcockian vein.
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Spine dulled.
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