One of Us Is a Murderer
193027270Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. First Edition. Octavio; publisher's black cloth boards red-lettered spine and cover with logo in pictorial dust jacket. 321pp. Light wear to cover but in Very Good condition tear in the top right corner of upper flyleaf. Light spotting on title page. Internally clean and sound. Dust Jacket in Very Good condition with some rubbing and chips along margins and mid-spine panel.<br /> <br /> From the prolific author of The Searchers 1954 and The Unforgiven 1957 comes a unique entry in his extensive body of work. A tale of murder and mystery set in a tropic locale. Trapped and isolated six men and two women wait for the next monthly transport outbound. Tensions and jealousies flare threatening to tear everyone apart until one of their own is found strangled the head of an Indian doll lodged in his throat. Now the survivors have to figure out which among them is the murderer before they strike again!<br /> <br /> Cover designed by the famed early 20th century Ukrainian illustrator Vladimir Bobri Volodymyr Bobritskiy best known for his illustrations for the Nero Wolfe mystery Too Many Cooks 1938.<br /> <br /> Alan Brown Le May 1899-1964 is known far and wide as a prolific author of Westerns and Hollywood screenplays and occasionally as a film director and producer. Screenplays include Reap the Wind 1942 The Walking Hills 1949 Blackbeard the Pirate 1952 The Sundowners 1954 and many others. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown
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