Gaunt (M.B.) The Leases of Death.
£395
First edition.
London, John Long, 1937.
A Hubin-listed murder mystery. The only one written by the author whose real name was Richard Henry Horsfield.
It is set in the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada and features an Eskimo detective called Nootka. A wealthy mining prospector enlists the help of nine other claim-stalkers, four of whom are subsequently murdered by methods as novel as they are gruesome. Two of them take place in ‘impossible’ circumstances.
Very rare in jacket.
In stock
VG+/VG – offsetting to front endpapers, minor foxing to fore-edge, spine ends slightly knocked. The jacket is complete but has minor chipping and rubbing to extremities, there is what looks like the remains of a label on the spine where price would usually be, some dustiness to back panel.
Hubin
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