The Morgue is Always Open

by Jerome Odlum

$550 · Offered by Royal Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: To Dorothy Payne— / in memory of one of the rare bright spots in a couple of dark weeks in May, 1944 / Best wishes and many thanks—always / Jerome Odlum. Basis for the 1943 film A Scream in the Dark, although the film was released before the novel's publication the following year.

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