Vtg Walter S Masterman / The Baddington Horror / First Edition 1934 [Hardcover] Walter S. Masterman

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1934 E.P. Dutton and Co. (New York), 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches tall blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, dark blue lettering to front cover and spine, 288 pp. Moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with bumping to all four tips and a cocked spine. Inside, apart from a prior owner bookplate to the front pastedown, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of an uncommon first edition. ~B~ [2.0P] A retired judge is found shot in his private garden, and beside him is found the body of an ex-convict whom he had sent to jail. It looks like a pretty clear case of murder and suicide, with the motive, revenge. Sir Arthur Sinclair, our old favorite of Scotland Yard, soon discovers that the death of Sir Ernest Ferber is not nearly as simple as it looked. The clues are unusually baffling ? the threads of the great knot strangely twisted and sinister. The setting of the story is Baddington Court, an ancient manor deep in the English country ? a richly traditional estate which has at its very core the Secret Garden in which the bodies were found. Walter (Sydney) Masterman (1876-1946) was an English author of mystery, fantasy, horror and science fiction. N° de ref. del artículo B-0932-13857

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