The Clew in the Glass

New York: Chelsea House, 1926. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. William Blair Morton (W.M.B.) Ferguson (1882-1967) was a pseudonym for William Morton. He was a crime and mystery writer best known for works such as The Murder of Christine Wilmerding (1932), Garrison's Finish: A Romance of the Race Course (1907), and The Man with 100 Faces (1938). The Clew in the Glass is a relatively scarce work of his. It is especially scarce in a dust jacket, although the jacket has a missing portion on the front and spine panels. According to the dust jacket,"Morney had been in love with the woman, but... she had jilted him. Then he came to Pinelake, not knowing that she was living there as the wife of one of its leading citizens. ...Close upon his arrival there, ... the woman he had loved and her husband were killed within a few minutes of each other, and Morney found his position an extremely uncomfortable one." Crime fiction! In tan cloth covered boards with black title stamp to spine and front cover. Light sunning to head of spine and a few smudge marks to boards. Pages are yellowed, but mostly clean with small spot of soiling to top margin of pages 17 through 30. Cock to spine. Slight offsetting on endpapers from the dust jacket. In illustrated dust jacket with off-white spine panel and black title to spine. There is a two+ inch of loss to bottom of front panel and foot of spine of jacket. Chipping and a few tears to jacket on edges. 318 pages. LIT/080106.