Clayton Rawson | Death from a Top Hat, 1938

Clayton Rawson

Death from a Top Hat. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, 8vo, two photographic illustrations including frontispiece, original blue cloth lettered in black, minor browning, some soiling and staining to binding, dust-jacket with adhesive tape repairs to front, dust-jacket frayed at extremities

A locked-room mystery novel which introduces the character of The Great Merlini. The book was filmed in 1939 as Miracles for Sale.

LITERATURE

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection