Rhode (John, pseud. Cecil Street) The Motor Rally Mystery
£125
London, Collins Crime Club, 1933.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
The fourteenth Priestley novel, published in America as Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap, and set against the real RAC Motor Rally. Dilys Powell in The Spectator judged that Priestley as usual takes nothing on trust and that Rhode achieves a pretty piece of deduction; Isaac Anderson in The New York Times thought it one of the best of the series, and that no faint praise.
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Minor foxing to extremities; cloth little rubbed and creased at spine.
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