Shearing (Joseph, pseud. Marjorie Bowen) Moss Rose
£595
London, Heinemann, 1934.
First edition. Autograph letter from the author (as Shearing) tipped in at front endpapers. 8vo. Original pink cloth.
A murder mystery, based on the unsolved murder of Harriet Buswell in 1872. The autograph letter from Bowen to the Scottish lawyer and keen amateur criminologist William Roughead is dated December 1939, and mentions a book of his published that same year, Neck or Nothing.
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A very good copy.
Provenance William Roughead (bookplate to front pastedown, and recipient of the tipped-in letter from the author).
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