Mary Fitt | Murder Mars the Tour, 1936

Mary Fitt

Murder Mars the Tour. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd., 1936

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, illustrated lower endpapers, original red cloth lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, slight spotting, very slightly skewed, some fading and soiling to binding, some soiling and spotting to price-clipped dust-jacket with extremities slightly frayed and minor loss, adhesive tape repairs to reverse

H.R.F. Keating notes in Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980) that "as might be expected from a lecturer in Classical Greek, the novels of Mary Fitt are patently the products of a cultivated mind. A character in them is likely to comment on a situation with the words 'as in Turgeniev,' and the reader is expected to pick up the allusion..."

PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection

section of spine supplied in facsimile