Crimefile number 3: File on Fenton & Farr

Patrick, Q. (pseud. of Richard Wilson Webb)

Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1937

About this Item

Small 4to, soft cover, 10 x 7 7/8 in (255 x 198 mm), 196 leaves, including several telegrams, handwritten letters and notes, sample evidence including fabric samples and a small lipstick mounted in a cardboard holder. Bound in yellow paper wrappers with original brown ribbon. Pages and covers toned and a few page corners curled but overall in very good condition for a loose-page publication. The William Morrow series "Crimefile" reproduced dossiers of crimes, daring the buyer to solve the crime using the evidence, as a police detective would. As stated on the cover "This file contains the complete dossier of a crime, with every clue and item of evidence preserved in its, original, physical form, exactly as it might have been received at Police Headquarters. The crime was a murder. The police solved it. Can you?" Crimefile #3 is based on the baffling deaths of Dr. Ferdinand A. Fenton and his attractive young secretary Pauline Farr at the Greenlands Academy for Boys, at Greenland s, N. J.

Seller Inventory # 453

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crimefile number 3: File on Fenton & Farr
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1937
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • 20th Century
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