Freeman Wills Crofts — Double Tragedy

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the scarce first US edition of Freeman Wills Crofts thrilling work of crime fiction, about a staged jewellery robbery. The scarce first US edition of this work, first impression, which was first published in the UK as 'The Affair at Little Wokeham' in the same year.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This is the twenty-fourth work in Wills Crofts's Inspector French series of detective novels, in which a gambling accountant murders his wife's uncle, in order to fake a robbery.A former owner has written the original title in ink to the half title. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Wraps bright, with chipping and minor closed tears to back strip head and tail, with closed tear to tail of fold over front joint, and minor closed tears to rear wrap head. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to half title. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.