Leslie Ford [Zenith Jones Brown] — Murder Comes to Eden

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1955 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the uncommon first UK edition of Leslie Ford's murder mystery, in which a country escape is threatened by developers. The first edition, first impression of the uncommon first UK edition of this work, which was first published the year prior in the US. In the scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped. The work of American crime fiction writer Zenith Jones Brown, who here writes under the pseudonym Leslie Ford, and presents a tale in which a married couple live on the eastern shore of Maryland, in Eden, Devon County, a peaceful country town. This is threatened by the planned building of a new bridge and super highway that will bring an influx of visitors and residents to Eden.  In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Bump to back strip tail, with back strip lightly age toned, and with area of fading to front board. Dust wrapper rear wrap lightly age toned to head, with closed tear to head. Neat restoration to back strip head, and to head of folds over flyleaves. Tape to wrap and back strip heads at dust wrapper reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.