Description

• First Edition* [Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949]; 256 pages; salmon cloth, gilt titling to spine, spine faded, boards also sun bleached, light foxing to block & outer leaves, a very good copy; in like price-clipped dustjacket, rubbed along edges, rear panel a little marked, repairs to folds & spine ends
• Chandler’s fifth Marlowe novel
• Michael Connelly’s favourite book

*Published three months before the US version both have claims for the true First Edition