Murder as a Fine Art

Edité par The Crime Club, London, 1953

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(lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a good sound copy, a little wear at the spine ends, fading to spine and (more severely) to an approximately 1-in-wide strip at the left edge of the rear cover;one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap)]. "The Ministry of Fine Arts had come into being during the short era of optimism following World War Two. Since its inception it had suffered from what might be called infant mortality. The first Minister died after six months in office, the second just before the General Election. Death claimed its third victim when Edwin Pompfret, deputy Permanent Secretary, was crushed to death by the fall of a larger-than-life bust that stood at the head of a flight of stairs. . Here indeed is the crime of murder carried out with an artistic touch, which evokes the reluctant admiration of Inspector Rivers of Scotland Yard." This was the ninth book (of 15) in the Inspector Rivers mystery series, that ran from 1945 to the end of the author's life in the late 1950s; during that period, it ran concurrently with the same author's Inspector MacDonald books (written under her more prolific pseudonym, E.C.R. Lorac), which had begun with her first novel in 1932. Critic Mary Ann Grochowski, writing in Reilly's "Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers," commented that Inspector Rivers "is remarkably like Inspector MacDonald, although more meditative and less inclined to romping through the bush." 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 -- 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 scarcity of most of her first editions (both the U.K. and U.S. issues) in today's marketplace. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing.…

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Titre
Murder as a Fine Art
Auteur
Carnac, Carol (pseud. for Edith Caroline Rivett)
Éditeur
The Crime Club, London
Année de publication
1953
État de l'article
Very Good-
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Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
First Edition.

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