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A Rope for the Hanging. A Mrs. Pym Story -
Nigel Morland
1939 - Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, New York - First American Edition
First edition in exceptional condition,.
Featuring Scotland Yard’s thuggish lady detective Palmyra Pym, who, in the words of Julian Symons, ‘is a figure straight out of the ‘Beano’ or the ‘Dandy’, tearing about London in a preposterous hat,indulging in dangerous driving, snarling at her subordinates, coming up slap against gangsters with WHAMS and THUDS. According to Russell James [’Great British Fictional Detectives’], ‘A Rope for the Hanging’ “best typifies her early bludgeoning manner”.
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Price HK$ 2,700
1939 - Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, New York - First American Edition
First edition in exceptional condition,.Featuring Scotland Yard’s thuggish lady detective Palmyra Pym, who, in the words of Julian Symons, ‘is a figure straight out of the ‘Beano’ or the ‘Dandy’, tearing about London in a preposterous hat,indulging in dangerous driving, snarling at her subordinates, coming up slap against gangsters with WHAMS and THUDS. According to Russell James [’Great British Fictional Detectives’], ‘A Rope for the Hanging’ “best typifies her early bludgeoning manner”.
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Price HK$ 2,700