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by Maritta M. Wolff

$650 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. Debut novel by Wolff 1918-2002 , who wrote it her senior year at the University of Michigan and had it published at age 23. A young woman returns to her small town in Michigan after several years away. When she dumps her former love interest and takes up with the local night club owner, he hatches a plot to rob and murder him. Winner of the Avery Hopwood Prize, and basis for

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