41st Perry Mason novel
cover photo of Ellen Burstyn by Silver Studios
1961 Great Pan edition from the UK – cover art by Sam Peffer
November 1962 Pocket reissue, 5th printing
cover art Robert McGinnis
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WOOLRICH, Cornell (1903-68). The Bride wore Black. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
8o. Original cloth (slight lean); pictorial dust jacket by Charles Coleman (price-clipped, tiny chip to back panel, slight rubbing to joints and folds). Provenance: Nina Kelly Bruce (bookplate, signatures on front and back endpapers).
FIRST EDITION of Woolrich’s first mystery and a landmark of noir. “There are no suspects, no clues, yet the reader is tensely aware of mystery. There is only the woman, her victims, and the relentless drama of her life–a pale shadow that comes gradually into focus and is seen at last in brilliant outline” (dust jacket). The basis for François Truffaut’s film starring Jeanne Moreau. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
1941 Philadelphia Enquirer Newspaper Supplement
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Summer 1941 issue – cover art by Wilson Scruggs
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cover art by H. Lawrence Hoffman
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1952 Winter issue – cover art by George Gross
1953 Pyramid reissue with new title
1958 Dutch edition from Kroonder,Bussum
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cover art by Laurence Schwinger
published in 1949 by Collins in London and Doubleday in NYC
born in Rangoon, Morna Doris Brown wrote as Elizabeth Ferrars in England but the US publishers changed it to E.X. Ferrars.
cover art by Frank Smith
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1952 Lippencott hardcover, this the later Pocket softcover reissue
1st of three novels with Steve Considine
cover art by James Meese
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cover art by Verne Tossey
cover art by Larry Newquist
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cover art by Sheldon
1959 from the Detective Book Club, this the 1960 Pocket paperback reissue
cover art by Robert Abbett
pseudonym of Hugh Callingham Wheeler, who also wrote as Q.Patrick and Jonathan Stagge, and collaborated with Richard Wilson Webb under all three names.
4th in his series with Peter Duluth series, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1945 as Puzzle for Wantons. This is the 1948 Pocket edition, re-titled.
cover art by Roswell Keller
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1950 Morrow hardcover, this the later 1951 Pocket reprint
cover art by Ray App
his 5th novel
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SMB Noir 
