THE DEATH OF COSMO REVERE.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [i-x] xi-xii [xiii-xiv] [1] 2-312 [313: Crime Club blurb] [314: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First U. S. edition. Published in the U. K. as MURDER AT FENWOLD. The author's third mystery novel and second to be published in the U. S. Bush had a long career and with many novels from the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. A Ludovic Travers novel. "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. Hubin, p. 122. Small Lawrence Solomon library label affixed to the front paste down (hidden by flap) a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear and rubs to the corner tips and spine ends, a tiny closed tear to the upper front panel and lower front panel, mild fade to the spine panel. Uncommon in jacket. (25263). Item #25263
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