DE CAIRE, Edwin. Death Among the Writers
DE CAIRE, Edwin. Death Among the Writers. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1952. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket which goes uncredited. An about fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine without inscriptions, stamps, or spots. The dust jacket unclipped (10/6 net) and complete, just slightly crimped to extremities with a couple of small stains to the spine panel. A handsome example.
A very scarce bibliomystery written pseudonymously by the aptly mysterious Edwin Alfred Williams, who wrote only one other work as De Caire and one other under the pseudonym, Edwin Moodie. It is rumoured he was born in Cairo—hence the pseudonym—but all other biographical information remains appealingly sketchy. The novel itself follows Inspector Bootle as he is tangled up in the murder of a literary agent who represented four equally curious writers in a quiet village. Very scarce.
DE CAIRE, Edwin. Death Among the Writers. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1952. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket which goes uncredited. An about fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine without inscriptions, stamps, or spots. The dust jacket unclipped (10/6 net) and complete, just slightly crimped to extremities with a couple of small stains to the spine panel. A handsome example.
A very scarce bibliomystery written pseudonymously by the aptly mysterious Edwin Alfred Williams, who wrote only one other work as De Caire and one other under the pseudonym, Edwin Moodie. It is rumoured he was born in Cairo—hence the pseudonym—but all other biographical information remains appealingly sketchy. The novel itself follows Inspector Bootle as he is tangled up in the murder of a literary agent who represented four equally curious writers in a quiet village. Very scarce.
DE CAIRE, Edwin. Death Among the Writers. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1952. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket which goes uncredited. An about fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine without inscriptions, stamps, or spots. The dust jacket unclipped (10/6 net) and complete, just slightly crimped to extremities with a couple of small stains to the spine panel. A handsome example.
A very scarce bibliomystery written pseudonymously by the aptly mysterious Edwin Alfred Williams, who wrote only one other work as De Caire and one other under the pseudonym, Edwin Moodie. It is rumoured he was born in Cairo—hence the pseudonym—but all other biographical information remains appealingly sketchy. The novel itself follows Inspector Bootle as he is tangled up in the murder of a literary agent who represented four equally curious writers in a quiet village. Very scarce.