LAUGHING DEATH

by Walter C. Brown

$650 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1932. First Edition. A superb copy of the second Detective Stephen Harper mystery, a yellow peril novel set in New York City. The novel has everything going for it: death, dope, detection, and torture, all set in the streets of Chinatown. And for the record we'll spare you the gory details , there's not a damned thing funny about dying 'the laughing death.' A terrific novel by a

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