Death Loves a Shining Mark 

by Anne Hocking 

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943

First Edition (stated); First Printing

Hardcover. 239 pp. 5-3/8" x 7-3/4".

Good condition.

Staining to margins of pp. 10-25 & 235-238; previous owner's name to front end paper; old store label to rear pastedown. Light toning to end papers & pages. Binding firm; spine slanted. Covers have rubbing & wear at spine ends, along edges & at corners; board exposed at bottom front corner; sun-fading & staining to spine; light soiling & some stains to boards.

Published in Great Britain as Nile Green, Death Loves a Shining Mark is the fifth novel in Anne Hocking's Chief Superintendent William Austen series. A solid copy of the first American edition. Uncommon.

Ships well-packed in a box.