Coffin Corner

Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 219pp. Jacket extremities rather worn with coin-sized chip at spine foot, spine slightly cocked, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good overall. A Crime Club Selection.

An Inspector Schmitt mystery featuring a dissipated heir to a football conglomerate, the jacket art irresistibly adorned with a skeleton kicking off.