Rhode (John, pseud. Cecil Street) Death on Sunday
£125
London, Collins Crime Club, [1939].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
The 31st Priestley novel, published in America by Dodd, Mead as The Elm Tree Murder, and one of the titles in which Waghorn does most of the legwork while Priestley supplies the direction.
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Some light foxing; spine slightly sunned.
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