By Pat McGerr.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Published for the Crime Club, 1948.

First edition, first printing.

"First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1948 date printed to the title page, $2.00 to the jacket's flap.

An elusive post-war Crime Club entry set in Colorado featuring wannabe murderer, Margot Weatherby, scoping out her future homicide detective ahead of time.

 McGerr, an Ellery Queen Mystery Prize winner, renowned for her puzzle mysteries, was selected for the Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction, 1900-1950 for her debut mystery.

 Pages tanning as usual, minor short tears to the spine crown, a touch of rubbing to the lower shelf edges, else square, firm and very good in dark-blue waxed linen boards with white titles and Crime Club gun-pointing insignia man to the spine; in a rubbed about very good dust jacket with a one by a half inch piece missing from the upper spine end, creases, nicks and very short tears to the shelf-edges, a one-inch long creased tear to the upper end of the rear flap fold, and some darkened spotting to the spine panel; original printed $2.00 price still intact to the front inner flap.

The jacket will be placed in a quality Brodart brand, clear, removable protective sleeve, after photographing for this entry.

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