A Pocket Full of Clues
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. Very Good / Fair. Item #11807
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket with no price as issued; [8],309pp. Jacket exceedingly tatty with ubiquitous chipping and closed tears to extremities, long shallow paper flaws from previously removed tape along margins of front panel, while remnants of old tape remain along margins of rear panel, both flaps rather raggedly separated but present, vertical crease across upper panel; old tape remnants to endpapers, corners bumped and cloth very briefly toned at extremities; an About Very Good copy in Fair, though still complete, dust jacket. Forms part of the Inner Sanctum Mystery series.
The second of just two hard-boiled detective novels published before Langham retired from writing in his late twenties. Preceded by Sing a Song of Homicide (1940), A Pocket Full of Clues also features the husband-and-wife mystery solving team Ethel and Sammy Abbott.
Price: $85.00