Crooked House
£450 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books
First edition
London: Collins for the Crime Club, 1949. Detective mystery FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.192 4 . Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Contents clean and fresh, some spotting to edges and rear endpaper, cloth is fresh, jacket lightly handled with neat, closed tear at joint, some wear to spine ends, sticker pull to rear. A pleasing example. A murder case for Inspector
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