THE MASK: Disher Solves Another!

Scott, Will

Published by MacMacrae-Smith Company, Philadelphia: PA, 1929

About this Item

FirstEdition. Ex lending library stamps, and partial plate. Edges are worn but overall very good as the dust jacket flaps have been glued to the book. Jacet extremeties are rubbed, jacket lightly soiled. Pictorial boards . Book now has mylar cover protecting it. Will Disher; England. "In this whodunit novel, private detective Will Disher is described as suave, plump, astute and bored, but Scotland Yard still asks him for help in solving the mystery. The plot begins with the masked-murderer scenario, this one being a toff in evening dress. Much of the plot takes place in an English country house, and some of it is set in London, but the general setting is the marshland just south of Herne Bay and Birchington in Kent. The novel also offers glimpses of the area just before the beginning of the Great Depression when many local farmers and innkeepers went bankrupt and their land was sold for very little to itinerant farm labourers, as happened at Shelvingford and Marshside. The character Wilks the farmer with his Kentish dialect could be taken to represent the existing peasantry in the area, as a contrast with the upper class in the novel's Georgian House." "Creeping Shadows is a 1931 British crime film directed by John Orton and starring Franklin Dyall, Arthur Hardy and Margot Grahame. It was made at the Welwyn Studios of British International Pictures. It was released in America under the alternative title The Limping Man, which was the name of the original West End play by William Matthew Scott on which the film is based.-- Wikipedia . Seller Inventory # 021066

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE MASK: Disher Solves Another!

Publisher: MacMacrae-Smith Company, Philadelphia: PA

Publication Date: 1929

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good-Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book