The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First Edition. Includes 53 selections with critical essays on Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Ogden Nash, Ben Hecht, Ellery Queen, Dorothy L. Sayers, G. K. Chesterton, John Dickson Carr, Raymond Chandler, Anthony Boucher, Joseph Wood Krutch, Rex Stout, Craig Rice, S. S. Van Dine, Robert J. Casey, Stephen Leacock, E. V. Lucas and many others.

Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, with an owner name to the front pastedown, a numeric annotation in manuscript ink to the title page, and rear hinge starting.

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