Author: FARJEON, J.JEFFERSON.
Title: The Shadow of Thirteen.
Description: London: Collins for The Crime Club, 1949. 1st edition. Ex library. Macabre, suspense novel. "The shadow of thirteen loomed darkly over Gatleigh Hall. On the thirteenth of October thirteen years ago there had been a death and a disappearance within its gates. For thirteen years on the fatal anniversary Lady Chelwyn had returnedm, in response to some mysterious inner compulsion to her neglected home". Pp.192, library inkstamps and old tape stains to endpapers, a little dusty to some margins. Orange cloth, library inkstamp to lower front corner, spine sunned and spotted, wear to edges. Scarce. Fair.** "Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955) was an English crime and mystery novelist, playwright and screenwriter..Farjeon's crime novels were admired by Dorothy L. Sayers, who called him "unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures". His obituarist in The Times talked of "ingenious and entertaining plots and characterization," (wiki).

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