Murder at a Police Station - Jefferson Farjeon 1943 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First Edition A fine first edition in fine and thus rare example of the evocative dust jacket.

By the author who Dorothy L. Sayers described as being ‘unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’.
  Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883-1955) was a British author of more than eighty novels, mostly crime and mystery, he was one of the first to mix romance with crime, however despite this he did not shy away from the sinister side. The Times credited his novels with ‘ingenious and entertaining plots and characterization’. Farjeon also wrote a number of plays, including Number Seventeen which was adapted for the big screen by Alfred Hitchcock. Farjeon was the grandson of the American actor Joseph Jefferson, his brothers were Herbert, a dramatist and scholar, and Harry, who became a composer. His sister Eleanor became a renowned children's author.

Thick octavo (book size 19.7x14cm), pp. 287 [1]. In publisher’s red cloth, spine and front panel lettered in gilt, top edge tinted grey-blue, others untrimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to lower corner of front flap, and two small spots colour touch up to to the outer corners of the front panel.
  Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket but for a thin vertical crease to spine and two small spots of unnecessary colour touch up to to the outer corners of the front panel.   Ref: 110523   Price: HK$ 3,000