Simon Lash, Private Detective

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1941]. First Edition with FR logo on copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's metallic grey cloth lettered in brown, crimson topstain; [2],281pp. Bottom edge of upper cover bumped, slight spine lean, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy of the first Simon Lash crime novel, albeit lacking dust jacket. Presentation slip of the Myron Selznick & Company Agency tipped to front free endpaper. The work was adapted into the 1946 film "Accomplice" starring Richard Arlen and directed by Walter Colmes.