This is Murder

220pp, [4pp] publisher’s ads. Burgundy cloth-covered boards; yellow titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine. Rubbed spine ends. Light bumping and rubbing to bottom edges and bottom corners; mottled cloth front and rear. Text block edges foxing and tanning. Lacks front free endpaper. Endpapers rubbed and marked; starting to fox and tan; label residue at front; hole in rear free endpaper. Front hinge cracked and stretched, volume loose. Page margins tanning and foxing. Ex-lender’s stamps on endpapers and rear dust jacket flap. Dust jacket fair; not price clipped. Includes publishers advertisements of the day. A cloak and dagger mystery: ‘It was a simple mistake in addition that brought Timothy Dane into it. It all started when the old man walked into Dane’s office and demanded that the detective find his missing daughter. Asked how he came to pick on Timothy, it seemed that the serial numbers on the old man’s last dollar bill added up to forty-three, and Dane was the forty-third detective listed in the New York telephone book!’ (from front flap)