Satan Has Six Fingers

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., for the Crime Club. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, lightly shelfworn, with a bit of fraying at the upper rear hinge, line of discoloration on both endpapers, soiling and a couple of tiny black spots on top edge of text block, one-time owner's handwritten notes about date and place purchased at top of front endpaper; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some fading to the spine, and has been internally tape-reinforced along all edges and seams (thankfully with no bleed-through)]. Mystery novel set in Rio de Janeiro (the author touted as "an authority on our South American neighbor"). This was one of five mystery novels by this Canadian-born author (1892-1961), all published in the 1940s; she was also a journalist and foreign correspondent who wrote a number of nonfiction books about Brazil, in addition to setting two of her mysteries there (the other was her previous book, "The Owl Sang Three Times"). .