Crimson Friday - Inscribed - Dorothy Cameron Disney 1943 - Random House, New York - First Edition Inscribed “For Grace W Cahill, I hope you get a shiver during these hot days, Sincerely Dorothy Cameron Disney, June 17,1943. Washington, D.C.

Grace W Cahill was the wife of actor and radio star Lou Krugman (1914-1992) who played the bad guy in ‘
No for Hire’, ‘The Wild Wild West’ and ‘I Love Lucy’ he also appeared in hundreds of radio shows, usually as a villain.

‘Dorothy Cameron’s novels remain quite fresh and readable, not only because they are fast-paced but also because the major characters are full drawn and believable... The surprising note for the period, and for the white-collar, upper-middle class milieu Disney favors, is that the women of the novels, in spite of hats, hats, gloves, dresses, and apparently conventional attitudes, are liberated. Her females are actresses, doctors, successful businesswomen, civil servants – and villains.’ – Neysa Chouteau, Martha Alderson,
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers.
  ‘Dorothy Cameron’s novels remain quite fresh and readable, not only because they are fast-paced but also because the major characters are full drawn and believable... The surprising note for the period, and for the white-collar, upper-middle class milieu Disney favors, is that the women of the novels, in spite of hats, hats, gloves, dresses, and apparently conventional attitudes, are liberated. Her females are actresses, doctors, successful businesswomen, civil servants – and villains.’ – Neysa Chouteau, Martha Alderson, Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers.

References: Reilly, ’
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 491.

Octavo (book size 21x14.3cm), pp. [6] 312 [2]. In publisher’s straw/olive cloth, spine lettered and decorated in burgundy, circular vignette in burgundy of illustration taken from title page. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to upper corner of front flap, paper restoration to corners and spine ends and colour touch up to front panels and spine.
  Condition: Fine with the exception of a small nick to upper edge of rear board, in near fine dust jacket with paper restoration to corners and spine ends and colour touch up to front panels and spine.   Ref: 110632   Price: HK$ 3,500