The French Key

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed and with some shallow chips at the edges, soiled at the back panel, tears to the flap folds. Grey buckram, some soiling and tidemarks, bumped at the corners. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, red top stain which has bled slightly onto some of the pages. Gruber's first mystery novel, one that sees a man locked out of his room climb onto the roof only to find a dead man holding a mysterious gold coin. The first appearance of Gruber's Johnny Fletcher.