Death and The Joyful Woman
New York: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Fully ex-lib in ex-lib The second Inspector Felse mystery and one of the most sought after early Ellis Peters titles. Hardcover. 189 pp. Someone had battered Alfred Armiger to death with a champagne bottle. The favorite suspect was his son Leslie who had married a humble clerk from the brewery offices instead of the beer heiress his father had decreed. But many others had wished Armiger dead. Among them was Kitty Norries, the jilted heiress, who, in her own efforts at detection, was aided, abetted, and adored by Dominic Felse, age fourteen. These two add charm and amusement to an unusual murder mystery in high and low life. fine / fine. Item #E34371
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