Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr] | The Plague Court Murders, 1934

Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr]

The Plague Court Murders. New York: William Morrow, 1934

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original black cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in red, DUST-JACKET, dust-jacket discoloured and frayed at edges with repairs, spotting to endpapers

"...The door had been bolted from within and without, and there was no other means of getting in or out. Yet there lay Darworth - and beside him the dagger that had belonged to the one-time hang-man's assistant - the ghost of Louis Playge..."

A CLASSIC "LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY" AND THE FIRST IN CARR'S SIR HENRY MERRIVALE SERIES OF NOVELS. 

PROVENANCE

William Fitch Cheney, Jr (presumably the stage magician) (ownership inscription); The Alexis Galanos Collection