Mother Finds A Body

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Good. 1942. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Good (only) condition, and is lacking a dust jacket. This copy has been decommissioned from a circulating library in San Jose, CA. First Edition (no statement on the copyright page, as per Simon & Schuster's policy at the time). The book covers have some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners. There ar several small spots of ground-in dirt to the covers. The text pages are mostly clean, with only a few occasional spots of foxing throughout. The front endpaper has ink stamped date marks, an ink stamped circulating Library name, and some remnants of a library date card. THere is a patch of rubbing and paper loss to the front pastedown page. The rear pastedown page has two remnants of paper adhered. "Lee's second murder mystery, Mother Finds a Body, was published in 1942. In December 1942, preliminary papers alleging breach of contract were filed in the Supreme Court against Lee by Dorothy Wheelock, associate editor of Harper's Bazaar, alleging that in August 1940 she and Gypsy entered into what Wheelock described as "an oral agreement to collaborate on a joint venture involving the conception, construction, development, writing and exploitation of a literary work with a burlesque background." (from Wikipedia) .