Dorothy L. Sayers — Have His Carcase

London, Victor Gollancz, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition, first impression of this celebrated locked-room mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers. Sayers' seventh novel to feature amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the second to feature his love interest, the detective novelist Harriet Vane.The very scarce first edition of this work.Sayers was a prolific author of crime fiction during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and one of the 'Queens of Crime', alongside notable others such as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh.With the inscription R. B. Withins to the front pastedown.This murder mystery was identified in the 'Catalogue of Crime' as the first to feature haemophilia as a misleading clue. Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding with boards restored and back strip laid down. Retaining the original endpapers. Minor fading to back strip, with light marks to boards. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Hinges strained, with boards holding firm. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting throughout, most concentrated to page perimeters. Good . Ill.: None. Good .