THE BRIDE WORE BLACK
$3,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available
First edition
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940. First Edition. The author's first full-length work of crime fiction, the first of his Black novels, and his first deep foray into the revenge narrative he would craft so expertly throughout his career. Julie Killeen's husband is killed on the church steps moments after their marriage; and in a ritual substitution of deathmaking for lovemaking, she devotes the rest of her life to
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