[First Edition] FEAR AND MISS BETONY Dorothy Bowers [Used...

By Dorothy [Violet] Bowers. Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. First American edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1942 to the title page. First published in England in 1941 as FEAR FOR MISS BETONY. Bowers, a crossword puzzle creator, English teacher, and author, was highly regarded for her intelligent, clue filled mysteries spiced with literary allusions. An elusive Crime Club detective novel. The highly rated, last, of four well-plotted mysteries featuring Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe and his assistant Tommy Salt. Thin vertical line of former tape shadow to the inside covers, front end-paper neatly trimmed short to the upper and lower edges, thin rectangles of former tape shadows to the upper and lower covers that also show some minor surface scratches and a mild light-blue spot, else firm and good to about very good in polished blue linen with Crime Club's shooting man insignia and titles to the spine, deckle page fore-edges; lacking a dust jacket.

Estimate:£37.57

View all items fromAbeBooksorBooks, Maps & Manuscripts