Before the Fact

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine. 1933 (c.1932). Early printing. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [nice clean copy, spine very slightly turned, extremely light wear to extremities]. "This is the story of Lina Aysgarth, who, after eight years, discovered that she was married to a murderer. It is not a shocker or a detective story, but a brilliant, disquieting, frightening study of a charming and thoroughly evil murderer." A Haycroft-Queen Cornerstone title, and the basis for the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock film SUSPICION, with Cary Grant as the charmer and Joan Fontaine as his milk-fed and very anxious bride. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. .