Give a Corpse a Bad Name

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1940

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Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United KingdomJames M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.

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First UK Edition. Publisher's original mid-blue boards with black lettering to the spine. Boards bright and clean (just a small patch of fading at the base of the spine). Offsetting to both sets of end-papers and ghosting (from the front flap of the dustwrapper) onto the front free end-paper. Overall a VG++ copy. The superb dustwrapper (priced 8/3 net to the inside flap to include war costs) as absolutely fine which leads me to surmise that it might have been supplied independently. Shows very well indeed. Great cover art by Thompson. "On a cold winter's night, a man is run over while lying drunk in the middle of a Devon lane. Driving the car is local resident Anna Milne, an attractive widow from South Africa. It could be an unfortunate accident, but strange coincidence hints at more. For the dead man also comes from South Africa. And he has Anna Milne's address in his pocket. In conjunction with the police, it is Toby Dyke, ex-reporter and man of no fixed occupation, who investigates the curious circumstance of the stranger's death" (GoodReads). First book. Photographs/scans available upon request.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
Give a Corpse a Bad Name
Author
Ferrars, Elizabeth
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton, London
Publication year
1940
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket
Binding
Hard Cover
Edition
First Edition.

James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.

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