Episode of the Wandering Knife: Three Mystery Tales
New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1949. Very Good / Very Good. Item #32866
New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1949. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's turquoise cloth boards with decorative spine stamped in silver foil and blue; decorative dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; 284pp. Light wear to top edges of front and back boards, bottom edge of back board slightly scuffed, crown and tail of spine lightly bumped, some foxing to endpapers and flyleaves, faint foxing to top and bottom edges of textblock, light toning throughout textblock, otherwise pages are unmarked and binding is sound; some chipping and closed tears along edges of dust jacket, crown and tail of spine are lightly chipped, some soiling to verso of jacket, else a Very Good and scarce copy.
Often called the American Agatha Christie, Rinehart introduced the "had I but known" narrative style with her first mystery novel in 1908 titled The Circular Staircase.
Price: $150.00