Alphabet Hicks: A Mystery [aka The Sound of Murder]

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. [colophon on copyright page] Octavo (21cm); gray cloth-covered boards titled in red on the cover and spine; 271pp.; spine ends are pushed with tiny tear at crown; mild toning to the spine; minor spot of biopredation to upper rear board edge; dusty upper textblock; mild toning to gutters; Very Good or better.

First appearance of Albert Hicks. "Where Wolfe is sedentary, Hicks is a dynamo of energy, where Wolfe is subtle, Hicks is brusque and direct; only in one thing are alike eccentricity." (from the dustjacket); BARZUN & TAYLOR, 2003; HUNIN, 393; AHEARN APG 020a.