Item #140940748 The Smiling Corpse. Hilea Bailey.
The Smiling Corpse
The Smiling Corpse
The Smiling Corpse
The Smiling Corpse
The Smiling Corpse

The Smiling Corpse

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club, 1941.

First edition. [viii], 274 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with navy spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, offsetting and lean to spine, slight curve to back board, bookplate on paste down. In a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket with light shelf wear, a few small puckers along gutter, pencil checkmark to spine panel, unclipped and unfaded. A mystery set in a funeral home, with a female assistant sleuth helping out her detective father by going undercover as an older lady. Barnett Mystery Women p. 25. Item #140940748

Price: $400.00

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