Shadow of Guilt

Random House, New York. 1959. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. A Random House Mystery. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the front pastdown dated Oct '59. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Very Good; light suntoning to spine and top edge of DJ. Tan buckram boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 190 pp 8vo. George Hadley just wanted to be happy. Caught up in a world where money, propriety, and, above all, appearances hold sway, he's more than willing to leave his wealthy socialite wife and run off with his secretary if it means being free. That's when he meets the young, handsome Don Saxon. A lothario with a shadowy past, he soon worms his way into George's inner circle, enchanting his wife, seducing his niece—and threatening to reveal George's affair. So when his niece finds Don in his apartment shot dead, George should be relieved. But then, the intrepid Lieutenant Trant starts taking a closer look at George's life and his growing list of lies. Unless George can figure out who really killed Don, he's never going to be happy—or free—again . . . A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…