Larminie (Margaret Rivers) and Jane Langslow [?pseud. Maud Diver]. Gory Knight
£400
London, New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A great first edition of this famous crime fiction parody of the round robin novel, promoted on the front panel of the dust-jacket as “A True-to-Fiction Detective Story…with acknowledgments to…H.C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts, John Rhode and Dorothy L. Sayers”. The most famous characters by these authors, including Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Wimsey, Dr Priestley and Reggie fortune, are playfully lampooned, in a country house murder-mystery. The title itself is of course a play on Sayers’ Gaudy Night (1935), and the letterpress-on-yellow style of the jacket is a nod to that book’s publisher, Gollancz.
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Title-page lightly creased; cloth spine very slightly sunned; jacket spine slightly tanned, otherwise a Fine copy.
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