John Rhode [pseud. Cecil Street]

Body Unidentified [Alt. title: Proceed with Caution]

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. Very Good / Good +. Item #30015

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, orange topstain, in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [6],262pp. Dust jacket extremities heavily chipped and worn with small losses along front flap folds and spine ends, corners bumped, hinges starting, old glue residue to front pastedown from previously-removed ex libris, else a Very Good copy in a Good or better example of the uncommon dust jacket.

Crime novel involving a diamond heist, an unrecognizable body in a tar burner, and armchair detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley's genius to link the two. First published in the U.K. the previous year under the title Proceed with Caution.

Price: $150.00