Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
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