Who Did What to Fedalia?

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Good+ dj. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice solid clean copy, light age-toning to page edges but no significant wear; jacket edgeworn and rubbed, spine a bit faded and also torn at several places near the top with resulting 1/2-inch paper loss at very top (taking part of "Who")]. A small-town Iowa girl heads for the big city to become a radio singer. Folksy tale from the creator of "The Music Man," with a little foreshadowing herein: a fast-talking door-to-door autoharp salesman on the opening page, a character whose favorite expression is "Great Honk!", etc. .