The Long Wing

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1947). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, slight bumping to upper corners, a few slightly scrunched and bent lower page corners, bookseller's rubber-stamp (Acres of Books, Long Beach, California) on front pastedown; jacket slightly chipped at top of spine, some surface wear at base of spine, otherwise just lightly edgeworn with a few tiny closed tears, a bit of soiling to rear panel]. Novel set in St. Louis, about a 50-year-old man "and his relationship with four women: his mother, his wife, his mistress and his daughter whom he re-discovers when she is eighteen; and the story of the impact on a girl, less mature than her eighteen years, of a tightly knit and numerous family all the members of which are strangers to her." The author was primarily a mystery novelist, whose career stretched from the early 1940s into the 1970s; this was her first "straight" novel, and also the first to appear under her full name. (Her earlier mysteries were published as "E.P. Fenwick.") Her 1963 book "The Make-Believe Man" was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. .