THE CATALYST By Josephine Bell New York: The Macmillan Company, (1966). First American edition, first printing. "First American edition" statement to the copyright page. Ron Chereskin jacket art. A selection in the Cock Robin Mystery series. With similarities to characters from classic Greek tragedies, a mystery unfolds as a man, his wife, her sister, and a beautiful actress (Aphrodite like) go to Greece for a relaxing vacation and find murder. Fine in black linen boards with blue Cock Robin mystery insignia to the front cover and with blue titles to the spine; in a nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny surface nick to the lower front spine fold edge, and with a faint small crimp to the lower front panel; original printed $4.50 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!