Macdonald (Ross) The Doomsters
£595
New York, Alfred Knopf, 1958.
First edition. 8vo. Original patterned boards. Dust-jacket, priced $2.95.
An attractive first edition by an author ranked amongst the very best of American crime fiction. Detective Lew Archer is hired by Carl Hallman to investigate his wealthy parents’ deaths. Delving into the corrupt world of the Hallman dynasty in Purissima, Archer uncovers political intimidation, treachery, and a family under threat from its own dark past. Uncommon.
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Boards with mild rubbing to spine ends, but otherwise very good; jacket with usual minor sunning to colour section, but otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by Bill English.
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