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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1939. First Edition. A novel featuring detective Hazlitt Woar, out of favor with Scotland Yard, and his companion Katheren Meynard, a literary agent, who stumbles across a frozen corpse while trying to catch a train. A case of mistaken identities, set between New York and New Jersey. Hubin, p.436. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [viii],303,[1]pp. Handful of tiny rubbed spots on topstain, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly edgeworn, with shallow loss to upper corner of front flap fold, and a few small tears; Near Fine.