NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. First edition (stated). 274pp. Brick-red cloth; dust jacket. Top corners mildly bumped; offsetting to endpapers; mild toning to edges of textblock; gift inscription on ffep. Jacket shallowly clipped but retaining original "$2.00" price; fading to spine; small chips to extremities; several short closed edge tears. Very good in like jacket.
A crime novel concerning a murder at a Long Island beauty parlor; the fourth of Darby's five books, all of which feature husband-and-wife detective duo Janet and Peter Barron. Issued under Doubleday's Crime Club imprint. Jacket art signed "Scher." Hubin, Crime Fiction, P. 107.
