Crime Is of the Essence

New York: Five Star Mystery, 1946. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Blue-white duodecimo, pocket book, pink rear cover, color illus to front cover, 157 pages, 18 cm. Almost half-inch clipped tear to DJ spine foot, less than quarter inch closed tear to spine head, almost one inch clipped tear to rear cover-top edge, faint sunning and soiling to spine, tiny clipped tear to title page (less than quarter inch), else good(+). Paperback.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.