The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket / No Dustjacket. Item #078016
Clean pages except for light toning along foreedge and a few small, gray smudges on the heel edge of the page block; full blue cloth cover shows a bump and wrinkle at the top right front, a faint droplet mark at the front foreedge, some softening at spine ends, and little scuffs at spine ends and corners, otherwise well-kept. ix, 545pp. Authors include: G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Vincent Starrett, S. S. Van Dine, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett...! Included is a nostalgia-inducing amenity: an envelope into which the reader is asked to deposit such reviews as may pertain.
Price: $35.00