To Have and to Kill

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1960. Good +/Good +. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's lavender cloth in pink pictorial dust jacket; [8],212pp. Extremities rather rubbed, jacket and board margins spotted with black ink, jacket spine panel a bit sunned, front free endpaper neatly excised, shallow chipping to fore-edge of first four leaves; a Good or better copy only of one of the scarcer Red Badge Mystery novels.

The author's second crime novel to feature Detective Jim Bennett, this time embroiled in a murder on the beach the morning of his best friend's wedding.