Matheson (Jean) So Difficult to Die
£85
London, Collins Crime Club, 1957.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 10s6d.
The debut crime thriller by established novelist Jean Chisholm Matheson; a dying surgeon suspects family and household members of expediting his demise, jotting down his suspicions and workings in his diary.
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Book Near Fine; jacket VG+.
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