A Rope for the Hanging. A Mrs. Pym Story -
Nigel Morland
1939 - Farrar &, New York - First American Edition
First edition in exceptional condition,.
Featuring Scotland Yard’s thuggish lady detective Palmyra Pym, who, in the words of Julian Symons, ‘is a figure straight out of the ‘Beano’ or the ‘Dandy’, tearing about London in a preposterous hat,indulging in dangerous driving, snarling at her subordinates, coming up slap against gangsters with WHAMS and THUDS. According to Russell James [’Great British Fictional Detectives’], ‘A Rope for the Hanging’ “best typifies her early bludgeoning manner”. First published by Cassell, London in 1938.
References: Reilly, ’Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 1094. James, ‘Great British Fictional Detectives’, 168.
Octavo (book size 19.6x13.6cm), pp. ix [1]307, 3-5 (publisher’s advert) 255 [1]. In publisher’s orange cloth, spine lettered in black, top-edge tinted yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, others trimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to upper corner of front flap. Condition: Near fine, light wear to corners and spine ends, one or two bumps to edges in fine dust jacket. Ref: 110337 Price: HK$ 2,700
Featuring Scotland Yard’s thuggish lady detective Palmyra Pym, who, in the words of Julian Symons, ‘is a figure straight out of the ‘Beano’ or the ‘Dandy’, tearing about London in a preposterous hat,indulging in dangerous driving, snarling at her subordinates, coming up slap against gangsters with WHAMS and THUDS. According to Russell James [’Great British Fictional Detectives’], ‘A Rope for the Hanging’ “best typifies her early bludgeoning manner”. First published by Cassell, London in 1938.
References: Reilly, ’Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 1094. James, ‘Great British Fictional Detectives’, 168.
Octavo (book size 19.6x13.6cm), pp. ix [1]307, 3-5 (publisher’s advert) 255 [1]. In publisher’s orange cloth, spine lettered in black, top-edge tinted yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, others trimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to upper corner of front flap. Condition: Near fine, light wear to corners and spine ends, one or two bumps to edges in fine dust jacket. Ref: 110337 Price: HK$ 2,700