Jonathan Latimer | Murder in the Madhouse, 1935, first English edition

Jonathan Latimer

Murder in the Madhouse. London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., [1935]

first English edition, 8vo, red cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, occasional light staining, cloth slightly soiled, new board liner to lower cover

The first Bill Crane novel, originally issued in New York in the same year. "Full of fast dramatic action, grotesque situations, and weird characters", as noted on the dust-jacket blurb.

PROVENANCE

library loan label on inside front cover, stamped by the stationer G.L. Davis, 230 Fulham Road; Harrods Ltd (blind-stamp at foot of lower turn-in); The Alexis Galanos Collection