Murder Walks The Deck

by Wyndham Martyn, William Henry Martin Hosken

£275 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. Detective novel FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.284; 4 , ads. Secondary binding of grey cloth with black titles trimmed, W.H. Smith's library style , illustrated dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Contents clean, owner stamps to endpapers, jacket cropped to fit binding, some small chips and tears, spine lettering sunned. A very good copy of a scarce pre-war mystery. Anthony Trent investigates a murder onboard a luxury ocean

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