Before the Fact
193221337Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Near Fine. 1933 c.1932. Early printing. Hardcover. lacking the original dust jacket but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing nice clean copy spine very slightly turned extremely light wear to extremities. "This is the story of Lina Aysgarth who after eight years discovered that she was married to a murderer. It is not a shocker or a detective story but a brilliant disquieting frightening study of a charming and thoroughly evil murderer." A Haycroft-Queen Cornerstone title and the basis for the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock film SUSPICION with Cary Grant as the charmer and Joan Fontaine as his milk-fed and very anxious bride. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. . Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover
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