THE PERFECT MURDER CASE.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-314 [315-316: ads], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, red end papers with white logo. First U. S. edition. The author's second mystery novel and first to be published in the U. S. Bush had a long career and started writing during the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. In this novel a series of letters are sent to Scotland Yard saying the writer will commit the perfect murder. After the crime Ludovic Travers an independent investigator (the second book to feature the author's long time character) gets involved. "The novels are remarkable in their ingenuity, their complexity, and their concentrated focus on the matter at hand. The tend to be unsensational, unfolding with scrupulous logic and eschewing the extremes of melodrama and fast or violent action. They are absorbing rather than thrilling, their appeal is more to the intellect than to the headier emotions." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (Fourth Edition), p. 137. [Reference: Hubin, p. 122]. Inked name and date to front free end paper, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight wear to the corner tips with a tiny bit of loss and some rubs, slight wear to spine ends with mild age darkening to spine panel and a tiny closed tear at the lower left front corner at spine edge. An attractive copy of an uncommon book in dust jacket (in any edition). (25262). Item #25262
Price: $450.00