Carr (John Dickson) It Walks by Night
£120
London, Harper & Brothers, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth.
A solid first edition of Carr’s first novel, of the locked-room subgenre. The work introduced his series character Henri Bencolin: “an impossible murder in a gambling club – the victim, seen to enter an empty room with all entrances under observation, is subsequently found there, beheaded” (Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers, p.146)
In stock
Small biro number to front endpaper; cloth slightly bumped and rubbed.
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