WHILE THE PATIENT SLEPT.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-313 [314: blank] [315: Crime Club promo] [316: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in red. First edition. The author's second mystery. The second to feature Nurse Sarah Keate. Filmed in 1935. [Reference: Hubin, p. 258]. Inked name and address to front paste down, light wear to cloth at corner tips and spine ends, rubbing to spine panel lettering, a good to very good copy in a good to very good dust jacket with mild wear to spine ends and corner tips, mild fade to spine panel with a 35 mm long by 5 mm wide chip with some tape repair to verso, small closed tear and crease to lower rear edge. Promotional wrap around band present "Awarded The Scotland Yard Prize $5,000 for the best detective story of the year." (32408). Item #32408
Price: $500.00