ALLINGHAM, Margery. Black Plumes. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc. 1940.
8vo. Original yellow cloth with decorative black spine and lettering with publisher's emblem, rough edged pages with black upper edge, beautiful decorative title page; illustrated price-clipped yellow and black dust jacket depicting a skull; pp. [viii], 270, [2]; rubbing to top of spine and corner bent, offsetting from front and rear pastedown; tear to top edge of dust jacket and loss to rear corner with general staining to front panel; otherwise very good.
First U.S. edition.
Margery Allingham is celebrated as one of the "Four Queens of Crime" alongside her contemporaries Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh.
Black Plumes revolves around the story of the Ivory Family and the ripple effect a murder has over all its eccentric members.
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