Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

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Jonathan Latimer | The Lady in the Morgue, 1937

Lot Closed

February 4, 04:18 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jonathan Latimer


The lady in the morgue. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1937


First English edition, 8vo, red cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, edges slightly spotted, dust-jacket chipped at ends of spine


Originally published in New York in 1936, this is the third Bill Crane novel, "a genuine mystery classic" involving "the snappiest, wittiest dialogue to be found anywhere" (Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers, p.928).


PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection