- Trial and Error

Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Co.. 1938. Hardcover, 8 vo. Book, yellow cloth, 351 pages, spine is faded, wear at corners and spine ends, end paper are toned,as are the endpapers, 2 line in ink on front free endpaper,Originally published: London: Doubleday, 1937, CONTENTS: Prologue: Symposium -- Picaresque: Mr Todhunter in search of victim -- Transpontine: The murder in the old barn -- Detective: The too-perfect murder case -- Journalistic: Scene in court -- Gothic: Dungeon cell -- Epilogue, Shy and retiring Lawrence Todhunter decides to make one final contribution to humanity before he is claimed by a fatal heart disease - he will eliminate the most obnoxious person he can find. He commits the murder, but then an innocent man is arrested for the crime. Horrified by this unexpected outcome, Todhunter is forced to turn detective to prove to the authorities that they have got the wrong man. Fair/No Dust Jacket.

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