DOVER TWO

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 1st US edition. Slight spie slant, lightly sunned at spine else very good in dust jacket, spine rubbed as well as front edge and front cover, indent ring from glass, not price clipped, $3.50 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Previous owner's name in ink at front end paper. The 2nd misadventure of the world's worst detective, as well as one of the funniest. Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. One February evening in northern England, a young woman is shot in the head and left in a coma. Eight months later she dies, thus becoming a welcome excuse to dispatch the odious Inspector Dover as far as possible from London. It soon appears that Isobel Slatcher could have been smothered in her hospital bed with a pillow. Now Dover may have two murderers to catch: one who pulled the trigger, the other the last visitor she had in her short lifetime. If, that is, the town’s warring Catholics and Protestants will only stop distracting him. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good-Very Good. Book.