Two Names for Death

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition. [iv], 251 pp. Bound in blue cloth with black stamping. Near Fine with dust-soiled cloth, offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ pictorial dust jacket with a small chip at its head, spine panel unfaded but a little soiled, tiny dimple in rear gutter, light foxing to verso. A critically acclaimed mystery, very rare in its first edition, which is back in print recently thanks to the Stark House imprint Black Gat. Anthony Boucher wrote of this book in the New York Times, "Simply and subtly written, with knowable characters and plausibly complex motivations, this won't disappoint those who recognized Fenwick in Murder in Haste as a possible major contender. (Inventory #: 140940782)