The Belgrave Manor Crime - Moray Dalton 1935 - Sampson Low, London - First Edition A rare title in the complete, bright and thus rare dust jacket, by one of the lesser known of Golden Age detective fiction writers.

Featuring the psychic investigator Cosmo Thor, Detective Inspector Hugh Collier and Superintendent Cardew, in a case that threatens to ruin Collier’s career.
  Katherine Dalton Renoir ('Moray Dalton') was born in Hammersmith, London in 1881, the only child of a Canadian father and English mother. The author wrote two well-received early novels, ‘Olive in Italy’ (1909), and ‘The Sword of Love’ (1920). However, her career in crime fiction did not begin until 1924, after which Moray Dalton published twenty-nine mysteries, the last in 1951.

First edition, with verso of half-title listing ‘
The Black Death’ (1934) and ‘The Edge of Doom (1934) as the most recent publications, with no later publications listed.

References: Dean Street Press.

Thick octavo (book size 19x13.5cm), pp. [6] 314. In publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front panel with single line border in blind, rear panel with publisher’s device in blind, all edges trimmed, with the exception of pages 201-204 which are also loose, an error in binding, front inner hinge with later matching reinforced tape. Dust jacket priced ‘7/6 net’ to lower corner of front flap, and with a small amount of unnecessary colour touch up to spine ends, and along left side fold of front panel.
  Condition: Near fine, light marks to cloth, matching tape reinforcement to inner hinge, in near fine dust jacket, some short closed tears along edges, with a small amount of unnecessary colour touch up to spine ends, and along left side fold of front panel, ghosting from former tape repair to verso.   Ref: 110410   Price: HK$ 6,200