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False Scent
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False Scent Cloth - 1960

by Ngaio Marsh

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first

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London: Crime Club by Collins, 1960. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. An exceptionally bright first edition of the twenty-first Roderick Alleyn novel from Ngaio Marsh. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.In this novel, Alleyn investigates the murder of a West End stage actress during her fiftieth birthday party. The subject reflects Marsh's interest in the theatre, where she worked as a director for some time.Marsh is regarded as one of the Queens of Crime of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, and Margery Allingham. Her best known character is Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective working for the Met Police. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper front wrap exceptionally bright. Significant spotting to perimeters of rear wrap, and reverse of dust wrapper. Minor closed tears to head of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine
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  • Title False Scent
  • Author Ngaio Marsh
  • Illustrator None
  • Binding Cloth
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Publisher Crime Club by Collins, London
  • Date 1960
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 890F17

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