by Franklin James
New York: Lantern Press, Publishers, (1947).
First edition, first printing.
Dust jacket art by N. Tate.
With
great tough-guy descriptions and hard-boiled lingo, this mystery
surprisingly features a young, tough, Texas woman who has just lost
back-to-back husbands in the war. She opens a roadhouse--her last
husband's shared ambition dream--and soon has to sleuth-out and deal
with a murder--and mobsters.
Bookplate to inside front cover, corners bumped, else very good in red linen with black embossed titles and vignette illustration of the suspect to the spine; in a very good dust jacket missing an inch from the lower spine end, small chips to the upper spine end, short shelf-edge tears, and with rubbing to the flap folds and corners; original printed $2.00 price still intact to the front inner flap.
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