ROUGHEAD, William. Malice Domestic. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. for The Crime Club, 1929.

First Edition stated. Malice Domestic, or The Balham Mystery, is a report about a real-life crime, one of many penned by an extraordinary individual with whom few book collectors nowadays are likely to be acquainted even though that individual virtually invented the genre of true crime as we know it today. Very uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end and flap corners, tiny chip at mid rear flap edge.

Price: $500.00