The Capital Murder

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fair. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a serviceable reading copy, but no more; the book had gotten wet at some point, with consequent large staining and cloth rippling to lower right corner of front cover, and a smaller area similarly blemished on rear cover; former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown; large, attractive custom bookplate of one Forrest P. Blunt on front pastedown, partially affected at lower corner by previously-described dampstaining]. Mystery novel set in Washington, D.C., revolving around the murder of a mysterious Argentine woman in her Washington mansion. (Note serious condition issues; offered as a reading/reference copy only.) .