A New Lease on Death [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1967. First American Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 214pp. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth margins, light foxing to flap folds, brief offsetting to endpapers, else Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.

Early Rendell crime novel and the second to feature Inspector Wexford. The front dust jacket flap features a ticking clock symbol connoting "Suspense.