London; Collins, The Crime Club, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. 234. Publishers' dark green leatherette with gilt titles to spine and Crime Club roundel in gilt to upper board, in unclipped gold pictorial dust-jacket. Tips of lower corners bruised otherwise a clean tight copy, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little toned to edge (mainly to reverse) with minor stain at top of front fold. A Near Fine copy in very good jacket. One of twelve Jubilee Reprints specially selected and introduced by Julian Symons to mark the Crime Club's Golden Jubilee, and chosen from titles which appeared under the Crime Club imprint during the years 1930-55 which were out of print at the time of selection. Detective novel featuring Strangeways of Scotland Yard, originally published in 1947; to supplement his literary income, poet Cecil Day Lewis (1904-72) wrote 20 detective fiction novels under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, though at time of first publication this identity was publicly unknown.

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Bookseller: Keel Row Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10528
Title: Minute for Murder.
Author: Blake, Nicholas [Day Lewis, Cecil]
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0002315971
ISBN 13: 9780002315975
Publisher: London; Collins, The Crime Club, 1980.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1980
Keywords: Fiction

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