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N.Y.: Detective Novel Classic, 1943. Detective Novel Classic #22 [.25 cover price]. Copyright page and title page missing, else a very good copy, light spine roll, spine edge rubbed, blind side of covers are age spotted, paper browning. Members of a wealthy family start getting threatening letters, and it's not long before the threats turn into reality and family members start getting bumped off. The family lawyer is a former newspaper reporter, and since the family patriarch owns a newspaper, the lawyer uses his investigative experience and the newspaper's resources to dig into the family history to see if he can uncover the person behind the killings. The evidence he unearths seems to point to one person--his girlfriend. Basis for the MGM film (1936), "Sinner Take All" starring Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Calleia. Directed by Errol Taggart.. Pictorial Wrappers. Good/No Jacket. Vintage Paperback.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co./Crime Club, 1934. Members of a family are being murdered, and young newspaperman Ernie Hymes wants to find out who and why. Basis for the 1936 movie "Sinner Take All" starring Bruce Cabot and Margaret Lindsay. Ex-library with internal markings. Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the edges, including tears to the spine ends. Spine cocked, hinges cracked. Front jacket flap glued to the pastedown, scuffs to the rear pastedown where the flap had been removed. Good reading copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Toronto: Doubleday Crime Club, 1934. First Edition. hardcover. VG+ (no Dust Jacket). Several members of the Lampier family are murdered, one under the very eyes of the police

Detective Novel Classic, 1943. 22. vg. 1st Detective Novel Classic 22 1943 digest edition paperback vg book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

New York: Caxton House, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. green cloth, pictorial spine, 289 pages, 4 line ink insciption on front free endpaper, light wear and chipping to spine ends and corners, small area of creasing to lower edge of d.j. at front panel (see scan) in mylar protective jacket Size: 8 Vo.,.