Death of a Lady Killer

Edité par Collins, for The Crime Club (c.1959), London, 1959

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[an ex-library book, apparently, although with only minimal traces of same (a short call number written along the edge of the front endpaper, and some mild scarring to the rear endpaper from label removal); a former owner, however, has covered the rear pastedown with inked notes about the book and author, as well as his initials plus information about his original acquisition of the book; the jacket is lightly soiled, with some minor wear at the extremities, some random pieces of tape affixed to the front flap, a tiny chip at the base of the spine, and is internally tape-reinforced along the spine, apparently to prevent a long vertical crease in the spine from splitting]. The final book by this author under her Carnac pseudonym (she also wrote extensively as E.C.R. Lorac), published the year following her death, and introducing (as did "The Burning Question" two years earlier) a new detective character, Inspector Strang. The plot: "The flirtation between the rich and handsome Brigadier Fotheringay and Mrs Delancie (known to the younger guests as 'the widow de luxe') was appreciated by everyone at the comfortable and expensive Spa Hotel, Bourne Regis as a diversion and a splendid display of practiced, if dated, gallantry. The discovery of the Brigadier's body at the foot of the cliffs, the complete disappearance of the widow, and the savage attack on the night porter at the hotel plunged the residents of the Spa into a melodrama which became more ugly and more puzzling as Inspector Strang uncovered layer after layer of evidence each more baffling than the last." Carnac/Lorac's work didn't receive much posthumous attention until the 2020s, when a number of her books have been reissued in the British Library Crime Classics series (four Carnac titles to date -- not including this one -- and more than a dozen by Lorac); despite being out of print for 60 years, however, she clearly retained a following, as evidenced by the extreme scarcity of most of her first editions (both the U.K. and U.S. issues) in today's marketplace. NOTE regarding the dust jacket, which is unclipped but also unpriced, although the book otherwise appears to fit all first edition points.…

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Titre
Death of a Lady Killer
Auteur
Carnac, Carol (pseud. for Edith Caroline Rivett)
Éditeur
Collins, for The Crime Club (c.1959), London
Année de publication
1959
État de l'article
Very Good+
Jaquette
Very Good+ dj
Reliure
Hardcover
Illustrateur
Illustrated by (dj) William Randell
Édition
1st Edition (see notes).

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