The Blushing Monkey
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.
First edition. [vi], 241 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Very Good with thoroughly age-toned contents, edges a little foxed and dust-soiled, in an unfaded example of the rare dust jacket, Near Fine with a tiny chip along the top edge of the front panel, flaps a little foxed and have offsetting.
The Louisiana-born author's final novel, a well-regarded "locked room mystery" with a twist; it is an unlocked room from which the wealthy murdered man should have escaped but did not. An even odder mystery is the book's dedication: to Herman Kahn, the famous nuclear war theorist upon whom the character of Dr. Strangelove was based. Explain that!
Price: $250.00