MACGOWAN, Alice; NEWBERRY, Perry. The Seventh Passenger. London: Hutchinson. n.d. [1928]. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth very clean and bright, the binding tight and square, some very faint spots to the textblock and to prelims, but mostly excellent without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, chips to the front panel top corner and foot, smaller nicks and rubbing to spine tips and joints, some light all-round grubbiness, but a well-preserved example.
Quite the eventful political mystery, set in San Francisco and involving several unscrupulous political figures, crafty agents of the Lamartine gang, and various others astute in skullduggery, from murder to kidnap to impersonation of high-ranking officials. Ohio-born Alice MacGowan wrote five novels with Perry Newberry, whom she met after moving to the semi-rural California art colony, Carmel. The pair led interesting lives—Alice narrowly avoided death by fire and purportedly several assassination attempts, while Newberry developed multiple careers in the military, as a playwright and author, as an architect and town planner, and eventually in politics, serving as the community’s fifth mayor. Both were passionate in retaining Carmel’s rustic spirit, and sough to protect it from prying tourists. All of their detective novels are scarce.
MACGOWAN, Alice; NEWBERRY, Perry. The Seventh Passenger. London: Hutchinson. n.d. [1928]. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth very clean and bright, the binding tight and square, some very faint spots to the textblock and to prelims, but mostly excellent without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, chips to the front panel top corner and foot, smaller nicks and rubbing to spine tips and joints, some light all-round grubbiness, but a well-preserved example.
Quite the eventful political mystery, set in San Francisco and involving several unscrupulous political figures, crafty agents of the Lamartine gang, and various others astute in skullduggery, from murder to kidnap to impersonation of high-ranking officials. Ohio-born Alice MacGowan wrote five novels with Perry Newberry, whom she met after moving to the semi-rural California art colony, Carmel. The pair led interesting lives—Alice narrowly avoided death by fire and purportedly several assassination attempts, while Newberry developed multiple careers in the military, as a playwright and author, as an architect and town planner, and eventually in politics, serving as the community’s fifth mayor. Both were passionate in retaining Carmel’s rustic spirit, and sough to protect it from prying tourists. All of their detective novels are scarce.
