First edition, first printing.
The fifth well-plotted, suspenseful mystery by the Edgar Award winning author who had three books adapted to successful films, including the 1950 film Noir 'Union Station' starring William Holden.
This novel featuring a NYC police detective, and a Priest who worried about convicting the innocent or protecting the guilty by disclosing too much or too little information, won the Inner Sanctum's Mystery Contest Award.
A presentable first edition in dust jacket.
Mild age-toning to the cover borders as usual, tiny tear to the lower spine edge, else tight, square and very good plus in linen-textured cream boards with hot-pink titles to the spine, Inner Sanctum book-reading face patterned end-papers; in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with art by Tony Palladino, with some mild wrinkle-lines to the right side of the lower front panel, hot-pink spine titles are faded-out to the spine panel that only shows the author's name in black, minute crimps to the upper and lower spine edges.
The dust jacket will be placed in a clear protective, removable sleeve after scanning for this entry.
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