Murder Will Out. Boston: Marshall Jones Company, (1928).
First Edition. Author's first and only Hubin listed mystery. Preface by Philip Hale. Fictionalized accounts of famous murder cases including Mattie Hackett and the tramp whose confession made one of the greatest sensations a Maine courtroom ever knew; of Theodore Durrant who killed his sweetheart and her chum in a San Francisco church; of Christie Warden whose murderer hid for six weeks in her father's barn and went out nightly to put flowers on her grave; of Lieut. Becker, victim either of the 'rats of the underworld' or of New York police corruption at its lowest depths; of Holmes, 'the resurrection man'; of Mate Bram; of Charlie Tucker; of more than a score of other cases". Near Fine, contemporary address at front pastedown, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners, edges with nicks and rubbing, few scotch tape mends at verso.
Price: $150.00