Seven Dials Mystery

Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1980-10-01. 1st Edn. 8th. Imp.. Paperback. VG++/VG/ND. Box X37 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 8th.* Date of Publication: 1980 (1929) * Publisher: Bantam Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing a gloved hand holding a gun against a background of clocks. Black titles to spine and face. Spine strip has slight lean and small reading creases slightly faded. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners, none to head or tail of spine. Light marks. VG.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Some age darkening and marks to edges especially to top. VG++ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 217 pp. text. i pp. ads at rear.* Product Description:- Sir Oswald and Lady Coote host a party at the stately home Chimneys, which they have rented for the season. The guest list includes Gerry Wade, Jimmy Thesiger, Ronny Devereux, Bill Eversleigh, and Rupert ""Pongo"" Bateman. Since Wade has a bad habit of oversleeping, the others play a joke on him by placing eight alarm clocks in his room and timing them to go off at intervals. The next morning, a footman finds Wade dead in his bed, with chloral on his nightstand. Thesiger notices that one of the eight alarm clocks is missing. It is later found in a hedge. The Seven Dials Mystery was first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 24 January 1929 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/8th with nl. Minimal age & wear reducing it to VG.*