The Case of the Hesitant Hostess

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953. Very Good/Good+. New York: William Morrow & Company, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Charles Lofgren; x,275pp. Jacket quite rubbed, wrinkled and worn with old tape repair to verso, some scuffing to boards as well, else a Very Good copy in Good or better jacket.

A Perry Mason crime novel, a battle of wits between Mason and cunning and beautiful Martha Lavina, the titular hostess.