Masks off at Midnight (Secret Service Series)

P.F. Collier and Son, New York. c1934. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; toning to pages and endpapers. No DJ. Brown pebbled buckram boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine; Secret Service Series embossed on the front board; embossed decorations on the spine. 266 pp 12mo. This novel is the third installment in the author's popular detective series featuring Sergeant Trevor Dene, a refined, Cambridge-educated detective from Scotland Yard. Unlike most British detective fiction of the time, this story takes place entirely in the United States. While Trevor Dene and his American wife are visiting the affluent town of Laurel on Long Island, New York, they attend a lavish, dramatic masked costume ball at a wealthy family's estate. Tensions boil over into financial sabotage, bitter rivalries, and eventually a central murder mystery that Dene must step in to solve. A clean very presentable copy.