Malice Aforethought: The Story of a Commonplace Crime

by Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley Cox

$750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Mundanus Ltd / Victor Gollancz Publisher, 1931. First edition, first printing, preceding the cloth issue. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow wraps. About Very Good, spine creased and toned, small tear along spine edge at foot, contents and wraps toned with age, corners a little bumped. An uncommon British mystery that is often cited as one of the best examples of the inverted detective story, in which the murderer's

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