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Midnight Murder - Ralph Rodd
1931 UK hardback first edition, first impression published by Collins Crime Club in London As a complimentary gift we are including a PHOTOCOPY of a 1st issue 7/6 jacket A VG book sadly no longer with dust jacket Clean bright orange cloth no fade to spine or lettering - wear to spine ends No onwer names or stamps etc - nice clean contents, tight and square Looks nice and fresh - please note the jacket is a PHOTOSTAT and not factored into the price An early crime club, lettered to front board, and very rare book indeed
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The Secret of Flames ~ Murder ! - Ralph Rodd
c1928/9 UK hardback later edition published by Collins in London The 1 shilling series, approx 6x4.5 inches A solid book complete with dust jacket Book has neat bookshop stamp, stil solid and tight The jacket has a couple of shallow chips, still tidy and looks nice in it's film wrapper A rare early period book
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Ralph Rodd was a pseudonym used by William North who was born 1869 and wrote twelve mystery novels, the last one published in 1940 |
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As a medical man and a specialist in ever increasing demand, Giles Egerton was not unaccustomed to driving swiftly through the country to reach the bedside of those who needed his services, but, as he was wont to say, he never allowed his excellent chauffeur to overlook the fact that it is desirable that a doctor should reach his patient with faculties and limbs intact. Unlike the exemplary Newstead, his present driver seemed oblivious of what should nave been obvious. From the rectory, past the old grey church with its lych gate and sombre cedars, the car dashed, skirted the village green, then, turning sharply, swung round a corner with a scarcely perceptible slackening of speed. Having gained the highroad the driver accelerated ; the pointer on the dial before Egerton having coquetted with the forty mark, passed the fifty without a pause and made for the sixty resolutely. " Steady, man ; steady," Egerton admonished, and he added, " I shall not be of much service to your mistress if you upset us before we reach her." The pointer dropped back to within nodding distance of forty. " ' It's life or death, Pringle,' Miss Jackie said," the chauffeur returned, as though the fact justified any amount of recklessness. |
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