ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN: A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery

N.Y.: Covici Friede, 1932. 1st edition. Yellow cloth shows some soiling otherwise a good, tight copy with very little wear. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY, Adey #2. Laid in is a laminated copy of the dust jacket reduced so as to be used as a bookmark. The book is now housed in a home-made acetate dust wrapper. "The circus was playing Madison Square Garden and Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt was there looking into some "accidents" that had befallen the troupe and led to one death. Some of the star acts had received letters warning them not to perform opening night, which happened to be Friday the Thirteenth. All the artists insisted they would go on anyway. "The Queen of The Air," Josie LaTour plunges to her death from the high rings and it doesn't take Colt long to figure it's murder. The suspects are many. From the husband, family finances are tight and she has a big insurance policy, to the catcher in the act who has loved for years, since before she married her husband, to the rich man that owned majority interest in the circus and wanted her, she not him. Then there's the personal maid, a former well-to-do lady who was on the end of LaTour's high temper more than once. As was her equipment manager. Colt keeps dogging along checking out every clue. The district attorney is concentrating his efforts on the husband and his ex-wife, believing them to be the guilty parties to the exclusion of all other evidence." -- Goodreads. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the George Cloos collection of detective fiction.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Book.