The Murder in the Laboratory
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929.
First U. S. Edition. Hardcover.
The Dutton Mystery of the Month. This novel was awarded the second prize in Messrs. Methuen's Detective Story Competition, the adjudicators being Mr. H. C. Bailey, Father Ronald Knox, and Mr. A. A. Milne. From the dust wrapper flap: "Winner of the Second Prize in the Great Dutton-Methuen Detective Mystery Story Contest. Considered by many to be a better book than the Prize Winner."
The young experimenter was pitifully dead in his university laboratory, obviously by poison, but there was not the slightest evidence of where the poison could have entered his body. Who was the assassin and what had this likable research scientist done to be hurled out of life by the poison route?
Item #9011925-1/4 x 7-1/2", yellow titled black cloth, vi, 247pp.
Tight, square, clean of owner’s marks, leaves toned, foxing (particularly of preliminary end final leaves), very good in toned dust wrapper with a bit of chipping to spine ends, in protective mylar.
Price: $200.00