FREEMAN, R. Austin

A Silent Witness

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); brick red cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; ix,10-328pp. Gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, lower corners bumped, with mild offsetting to endpapers, neat repair to lower front joint, and a partial crack to lower front pastedown; Very Good, lacking the rare dustjacket.

"An early example of the body that is discovered and then vanishes when help comes. Told in the first person by Dr. Jardine, whose life is attempted for what he unsuspectingly knows, who weaves his own romance out of murder and other machinations and who is loved and guarded by the villain's wife. She dies in saving him, and all ends well, after an orgy of complexity in which Thorndyke, Polton, and Jervis work like beavers" (BARZUN & TAYLOR 900). HUBIN, p.157.

Price: $200.00

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