Burnside Rare Books

The Reluctant Murderer

Carey, Bernice

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, 1950.

First edition. 186 pp. Publisher's red cloth with white lettering. Very Good with foxing to cloth, contents toned, in a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly edge-worn, unclipped. The crime author's debut novel, rare in the first edition. After falling out of print for decades it was reprinted by Stark House in 2019 along with her novel The Body on the Sidewalk, leading to comparisons with Dorothy B. Hughes and other greats of the hard-boiled era. Item #140941040

Price: $500.00