Ownership markings to front endpapers; covers a little bumped and toned at extremities; jacket with minor chipping to corners, but overall VG.
Jacket artwork by Biro.
£95
London, Peter Davies, 1960.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced 13s6d.
Ace private detective Carolus Deene is on the case in the village of Gladhurst.
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Ownership markings to front endpapers; covers a little bumped and toned at extremities; jacket with minor chipping to corners, but overall VG.
Jacket artwork by Biro.
Detective Fiction
First edition. Sequel to Pulitzer Prize winner, The Mclaughlins’ - difficult in d/w
London, Cassell, 1936
The story begins 6 months after the end of the first novel in December 1868. Two men have been found lynched. The story follows the attempts of the community to bring their murderers to justice, intertwined with the stories of Willy and his sister Jean and their reactions to the community's thirst for justice.
Detective Fiction
First edition. London, Heinemann, 1928 Fifteen episodes of crimes studied by Rowland Hern and his Watson-like unnamed narrator with strong supernatural content.