Freeman Wills Crofts | The Loss of the "Jane Vosper", 1936

Freeman Wills Crofts

The Loss of the "Jane Vosper". London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1936

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original orange cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, slight browning, spotting to edges, minor soiling to binding, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some loss to spine, adhesive tape repairs to reverse

In Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980), Melvyn Barnes notes that "...time and again we find a strong... shipping interest (The Loss of the "Jane Vosper"...) where Crofts puts his technical knowledge to excellent use."

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The Alexis Galanos Collection