Give a Corpse a Bad Name

Ferrars, Elizabeth

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1940

About this Item

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. Seller Inventory # 355490723744

Bibliographic Details

Title: Give a Corpse a Bad Name

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London

Publication Date: 1940

Binding: Hard Cover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition.