Bailey, H.C. No Murder. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.1942.
8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth with dark blue lettering; yellow dust jacket with purple titles; pp. [viii], 192; minimal foxing to paper edges and fading to pages (as usual). prior ownership label stamped to front pastedown alongside 'The Holliday Bookshop' label to rear; browning to dust jacket spine with slight loss to top and bottom; otherwise very good.
First edition
Henry Christopher Bailey was one of the most important English crime novelists of the so called 'Golden Age' alongside nototious literary profiles such as Agatha Christie. No Murder is another installment of one of the iconic Reggie Fortune series, in which Mr. Fortune investigates a series of murders and attempted murders in the small, previously inconspicuous, village of Marstow.
Reggie Fortune, whose exmainations make up Bailey's first detective series, is a man initially trained in the medical practice, but who is later employed by Scotland Yard as a medical expert in murder cases.
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