The Smiling Corpse
- Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club, 1941
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club, 1941. First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition. [viii], 274 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with navy spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, offsetting and lean to spine, slight curve to back board, bookplate on paste down. In a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket with light shelf wear, a few small puckers along gutter, pencil checkmark to spine panel, unclipped and unfaded. A mystery set in a funeral home, with a female assistant sleuth helping out her detective father by going undercover as an older lady. Barnett Mystery Women p. 25.
Details
Title
The Smiling Corpse
Author
Bailey, Hilea
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club: Garden City, NY
Date
1941
Edition
First Edition