Fool Errant - Patricia Wentworth (psued. Dora Amy Elles) 1929 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & - First American Edition A superb example of the first edition of the first Benbow Smith mystery, in fine dust jacket without price-clipping or restoration.

‘A despicable plot involving government intrigue and espionage’.
  Published the same year by Hodder and Stoughton, London. According to Cooper & Pike it is possible the British Edition may not be the true first.

Dora Amy Elles (1877-1961) was a prolific British author who wrote under the pseudonym Patricia Wentworth.

References: Reilly, ’
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 1460. Cooper & Pike, ‘Detective Fiction’, 309.

Octavo (book size 19.8x13.4cm), pp. 320. In publisher’s orange brown cloth, spine and front panel lettered in black, all edges trimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to upper corner of front flap, all flaps with publisher’s decorative trim to corners.
  Condition: Near fine, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, pages toned with one or two gatherings showing light foxing, 1cm patch of abrasion to rear pastedown, possibly from earlier booksellers label, in fine dust jacket, very small spot of abrasion to lower corner of spine possibly from production.   Ref: 110806   Price: HK$ 3,900