by Charles Franklin

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1968).

First American edition.

Review copy with publisher's printed card and typed-in information and Los Angeles Times reviewer's name: 'Dorothy Hughes', laid in.

SIGNED by Dorothy B. Hughes--the highly lauded hard-boiled mystery author, famous for her film adapted books especially the noirs RIDE THE PINK HORSE and IN A LONELY PLACE--to the front end-paper.

A true murder crimes history and study, focused on women murderers, and women victims who were mysteriously killed.

Illustrated with eight quality black-and-white photograph plates.

Includes examinations of the cases of Starr Faithful, Marguerite Diblanc, Charlotte Bryant, actress Gay Gibson, and more.

Mild yellow large foxing spots to the borders of the front end-paper, slight foxing to the outer upper page edges, else very good in greenish-brown textured boards with silver embossed titles and rules to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with light fading to the spine panel, a short tear to the lower spine end, rubbing to the upper and lower spine edges, and minor crimps to the lower shelf-edge of the front panel, and a very small rub-abrasion and two tiny soil spots to the rear panel; original printed $4.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 180 pages; introduction.

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