Death Sentence by Alice Duer Miller 1935

Death Sentence
Alice Duer Miller
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company 1935
Copyright 1935
248 pages

The pages are lightly tanned and there is a name written on the front end paper and smudges on the title page. The front hinge is weakening, the binding has breaks but all pages ae present and attached. The cover is scuffed and edge worn and there is some creasing on the spine. Acceptable. Hardcover.

Chapter 1:  A traveler as experienced as Lever never got out of bed until the ship had left Quarantine, and never appeared on deck until the end of the pier was in sight. Irked by merely social contacts, he had no answer for requests for postal cards from Shanghai, and injunction to look the speaker up next time he found himself in Omaha. To avoid the repeated farewells of those with whom he did not intend to burden his memory, he went to the boat deck, and there suddenly found himself surrounded by a group of ship's news men, waiting really for a lovely motion picture actress, but not disinclined to snatch at lesser celebrities. Cameras immediately began to click, taking the picture of a tall thin man, a fine head almost skull-like except for a beak of a nose, also very thin, and hollow eyes that could not in a photograph show their queer color - between hazel and grey.  1.2  (#0000996)