first edition
1947 · New York
by Helen Reilly
New York: Random House, 1947. Good +/Good. New York: Random House, 1947. First Printing Stated. Octavo (19 cm); 246pp. Boards in black cloth with gray and gilt stamping, wrapped in publisher's price-clipped pictorial jacket. Jacket generally scuffed, toned, scraped, creased, and torn, separated at the rear spine joint. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with general shelfwear overall; binding cocked but firm. Abrasion to first free endsheet from previous owner name erasure and small finger smudges to prelims, otherwise pages clean. A Good or better copy in a Good only jacket. A mid-series Inspector McKee novel, involving the murder of a private detective. (Inventory #: 33695)
