Died in the Wool by Marsh, Ngaio - [1944]

Auckland: Collins / The Crime Club. Good with No dust jacket as issued. [1944]. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the front free endpaper (replaced with a later endpaper). Hinges weak. Lacking the dust-jacket.; New Zealand edition. Title page has imprint London: Collins, but copyright page has: "Set up, printed and bound in New Zealand for the publishers Collins Bros. and Co. Ltd. Auckland by Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd. Crawfrod Street Dunedin". (250) , [2 (blank)] pages. Green cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No date [1944]. Page dimensions: 181mm x 121mm. Crime fiction, a novel. New Zealand author. "Died In The Wool is a brilliantly told detective story by that very accomplished writer Ngaio Marsh. Unusual in its richly descriptive setting on a New Zealand sheep station, highly dramatic in its well-conceived plot, and generous in its varied cast of cleverly portrayed characters, Died In The Wool is an outstanding achievement." - from the blurb of the dust-jacket on a different copy (this copy is lacking the dust-jacket). [Reference: Bagnall "New Zealand National Bibliography" M1098 - "Set on a New Zealand sheep station."] .