Moment for Murder

[New York]: Arcadia House. Very Good in Very Good+ dj. (c.1956). First Edition. Hardcover. [apparently an ex-rental library book (not overtly marked as such but with the remnant of a label on the rear endpaper), only lightly worn but with some black residue along the bottom edges of both pastedowns and endpapers (from one of those old-style dust jacket covers, now removed), and a bit of staining to several early pages; the jacket is nice and clean with only some modest wrinkling and minor edgewear]. Murder mystery about a group of executives at a New York advertising agency who have to spend an obligatory weekend in Connecticut in the company of a disagreeable client (the chairman of a frozen foods company) -- who proves to be, at first, a somewhat lonely man who's concerned about the whereabouts of his "beautiful young blonde wife, and subsequently an inconveniently dead man who succumbs (or so it appears) to a heart attack. The author (not to be confused with the prominent West Coast architect and watercolorist of the same name) wrote about ten mystery novels between the early 1940s and the early 1960s, several of which had ad-agency setiings, which kinda makes me think he worked in that milieu, although I haven't found any hard evidence for it. .