The Fatal Kiss Mystery

Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in black; vii,[1],264pp. Light wear to cloth margins, spine a bit toned, faint soil to rear cover, endpapers foxed, contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy, albeit lacking the rare jacket.

Early Rufus King crime novel blending romance, suspense, and the nascent field in atomic energy, the sweeping Adirondack mountains serving as backdrop.