X v REX **DUST- JACKETED PAPERBACK**

London: UK: Collins Crime Club, 1936. Eight Impression, March 1936. Vintage Paperback in scarce dust jacket. Book is fine, dust jacket is rubbed at folds, small pirce out at head and foot of spine, piece out at rear with tape reinforcement at blind side else a very good dust jacket in protective mylar cover. " X, symbol of the unknown, against Rex, the symbol of Law and Order and the People. For the perpetrator of a series of appalling murders in the greatest city of the world to defy capture and remain at large, killing, is a blow at the very structure of society; how much more is this so when the victims of his knife are the guardians of the Law themselves? A policeman is killed in amazing circumstances, in a country town near London – and the hunt is up! Another and still another murder is committed until the apparently never-ending series of diabolical crimes engages the serious attention of the whole Cabinet. Distinguished by clever characterisation and good dialogue, X v. Rex is a murder story on the truly grand scale - a story in which the excitement rises in dramatic crescendo to a thrilling conclusion." -- hardcover dust jacket "A Jack the Ripper story with a policeman obsession, interleaved with jottings from the madman's diary - writen and contrived with undeniable cleverness." -- London Observer . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/Very Good. Vintage Paperback.