The Black Path of Fear

Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1944. Very Good. Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1944. First Edition, stated. Octavo (20.5 cm); [viii],183pp. Publisher's gray cloth with black lettering and logo to front and spine. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are square, with a small spot of soiling at top front, some dulling to spine, and nudging at spine ends. Small bookplate of Maurice E. Stansby on front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Basis for the 1946 film noir The Chase, starring Robert Cummings, Michele Morgan, Steven Cochran, and Peter Lorre.