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Signed first edition with original distjacket. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 7s. 6d. to front flap; pp. 251, [4 (publisher’s advertisements)], [1 (blank)]; a little sunning to spine and some scuffing to white of jacket’s back panel, very slight wear to edges of jacket, two neat tape repairs to reverse, but overall a very bright jacket, some light spotting to edges of textblock, slight pushing to base of spine; near fine.First UK edition, first impression.Dorcas Whipple is a wealthy heiress, but despite her comfortable position, she’s in emotional turmoil. The novel begins the night before her wedding, and she is torn between her love for the “ne’er-do-well” Ronald Drew and her respectable fiancée Jevan Locke. After meeting with Ronald for a final goodbye, Dorcas believed it would be the last she would hear of him, but the following morning’s papers are smeared with news of murder…The UK edition was published the year after the US edition which appeared in 1938, published by Doubleday. This copy has an especially bright and beautiful dust-jacket, its design emblematic of the golden age of crime fiction. A lovely copy, in fine condition.Hubin, p.128.…