Brown Fredric

1948 · réf. 28956 — New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. a nice clean copy with just the teensiest bit of wear to the spine end; the jacket has a bit of wear at the corners and edges with tiny tears at the spine extremities. Dutton Guilt Edge Mysteries Series Brown's third published mystery novel with a typically ingenious plotline: "To Bill Tracy radio script writer and one-time newspaperman the most incredible thing about the daring Santa Claus Murder was the he himself had planned it! Pure coincidence could hardly account for the fact that murder had been committed exactly as Tracy had written it for a proposed radio mystery -- which he had never shown to anyone." . E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. hardcover