Item #5004 THE WOMAN IN THE CAR. Richard Marsh, pseud. of Richard Bernard Heldmann.

THE WOMAN IN THE CAR

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915. First American Edition. Late novel by Marsh (1857-1915), English author of the best-selling novel The Beetle (1897), whose prodigious output of supernatural and crime fiction spanned the late 19th century until his death. First published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1914, in The Woman in the Car, Marsh "scatters blood generously - having doubtless argued that three corpses are just as easily drawn from the ink-bottle as one corpse. He makes no extra charge for quantity. Quality is provided, too - for one corpse is shot, one is stabbed, and one is torn by a wild animal - unfairly perplexing the police doctor. The last and most complicated corpse is driven furiously through the British night in a motor-car and deposited at the door of a London club. Then the story begins - when it is virtually finished; but, of course, the author, the police, and the readers have to disentangle the story together" (The Bookfellow: The Australasian Review and Journal of the Australasian Book Trade, Vol.4, No.4. 15 April, 1915). A scarce title in or out of dustjacket, and uncommonly well-preserved; OCLC notes a scant 6 holdings. Hubin, p.276. Item #5004

First Printing. Octavo (19cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; vi,311,[3]pp. Dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, else very Near Fine. In the pictorial dustjacket, priced $1.35 net at lower spine; lightly edgeworn, with a diagonal tear at upper spine panel, neatly mended on verso; Very Good+.

Price: $1,500.00