Carr, John Dickson.

IT WALKS BY NIGHT.

New York City & London: Harper & Brothers, 1930.

1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo., 328 pp. Dark blue covered cloth with light blue lettering. A Harper's "Sealed Mystery". Publication code "A-E" (January, 1930) on copyright page. A very good copy showing moderate use [tiny name on front pastedown, booksellers ticket on ffe]. Carr's famous first book & first 'locked room ' mystery: "had no secret entrances; the murderer was not hiding anywhere in the room; he did not go out by the window; he did not go out by the door . Yet a murderer had beheaded his victim there."

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