Mystery of the Dead Police

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, for the Crime Club. Very Good. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of the original first edition jacket; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [modest shelfwear, slight deterioration to cloth at top of spine, minor bumping to a couple of corners, old label on front pastedown (indicating where and when purchased, I believe), one time owner's signature and date on front endpaper] Mystery novel in which Scotland Yard tries to track down a serial killer (before that term had been coined) who's knocking off policemen. Also published in England as "X v. Rex," under one of MacDonald's several pseudonyms, "Martin Porlock." NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, which has not been factored in to our pricing. . (Inventory #: 29395)