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'That is all I have to say.'
Hulbert Footner, from "The Almost Perfect Murder"
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'That is all I have to say.'
Hulbert Footner, from "The Almost Perfect Murder"
The Casual Murderer. Hulbert Footner. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. [1937]. Presumed first edition. Original dust jacket.
A bumper collection of seven stories featuring the glamorous Madame Storey - psychologist and detective. From missing persons to ghastly murder (often in the same case) Madame Storey and her faithful secretary Bella take on the criminal underworld of 1930s New York in these thrilling mysteries.
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1930 Doubleday hardcover, first edition, The Crime Club
cover art by E. McKnight Kauffer
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1931 Harper & Brothers hardcover
1931 UK hardcover reissue (1933? 1938?)
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1945 Collins Crime Club in the UK, Harper & Brothers in the US
1947 Avon digest, #37
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