The Fabulous Clipjoint

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 224pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket and cloth margins including small chip at jacket spine crown and closed tear at top edge of upper jacket panel briefly touching text, smallish soil spot to the same, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy.

The author's first full-length book, awarded the Edgar Award for best first mystery novel in 1948.