MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY

by August W. Derleth

$1,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Loring & Mussey, 1934. First Edition. Derleth's first book, and the first of ten novels he'd write featuring his recurring character, Judge Peck. In this first novel of the Judge Peck series the Judge and his friend Dr. Jasper Considine work together to solve the mysterious slaying of Satterlee Wakely, which has roots in his dark, sinister past Wilson 328 . In a July 27, 1933 letter to H.P. Lovecraft, Derleth

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