Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr] | The Judas Window, 1938

Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr]

The Judas Window. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1938

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original black cloth stamped in red on spine and upper cover, DUST-JACKET, light fraying to dust-jacket

Avory Hume is found stabbed to death with an arrow—in a study with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door locked from the inside. In the same room James Caplon Answell lies unconscious, his clothes disordered as though from a struggle, his fingerprints on the damning arrow. Sir Henry Merrivale proves Answell's innocence in this beguiling "locked room" mystery, widely regarded as a classic of the genre.

LITERATURE

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection