The Wife of the Red-Haired Man

London: Max Reinhardt. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1957. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [only lightly shelfworn with a couple of very slightly bumped corners, but downgraded a bit due to dust-soiling to the top edge of the text block; jacket shows some wear at edges and extremities, one tiny closed tear and associated short diagonal crease at top of rear panel, light soiling to rear panel, "RED-HAIRED" on spine somewhat faded but still readable]. Thriller about a woman who, believing her husband to have been killed in the war, remarries -- only to have her husband (the red-haired man, now an escaped convict) reappear on the scene, and promptly murder her new husband -- after which the now-reunited couple take it on the lam. The story is told both from their viewpoint and that of the police detective who's on their trail. .