Sayers Dorothy L and Robert Eustace Eustace Robert Barton (4 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. New Edition. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & a little creased, some toning & spotting); pp. 224. A very good copy.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. First Thus. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & a little creased, some marks, gutter separation at p. 80/81); pp. 244, [4 (pubs. advts.)]. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. First published in 1930, this is an eighth (Cheap Edition) of 1948. Edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of classic yellow Gollancz jacket, small loss to top of spine, 2" loss to bottom of spine and back jacket, spine browned, some overall foxing and time staining, corners rubbed with small loss. Not clipped (4/-), some offsetting to prelims, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a very reasonable copy for its age. 174pp. Written with the crime fiction author Eustace Robert Barton (1854-1943), who supplied the plot and medical details, and written in an epistolary style, this book is the only one of Sayers' twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character. Classic, elegant, Dorothy L. Sayers.…

7th impression. 'Cheap War Edition'. The only one of Sayers's twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character. However, the forensic analyst Sir James Lubbock, who appears or is mentioned in several of the Wimsey novels, also appears in The Documents in the Case. An epistolary novel, told primarily in the form of letters between some of the characters, using the multiple narrative technique associated with Modernist novelists of the period. This collection of documentshence the novel's titleis explained as a dossier of evidence collected by the victim's son as part of his campaign to obtain justice for his father. Pp.174, pages browned, owner's details to front free endpaper and final page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper spotted with edge tears and small losses to top and tail of spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. G/G.…