{"product_id":"eberhart-m-g-hasty-wedding","title":"EBERHART, M. G. Hasty Wedding.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEBERHART, M. G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hasty Wedding. \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Crime Club by Collins\u003c\/i\u003e. 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 7s. 6d. to front flap; pp. 251, [4 (publisher’s advertisements)], [1 (blank)]; a little sunning to spine and some scuffing to white of jacket’s back panel, very slight wear to edges of jacket, two neat tape repairs to reverse, but overall a very bright jacket, some light spotting to edges of textblock, slight pushing to base of spine; near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, first impression.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDorcas Whipple is a wealthy heiress, but despite her comfortable position, she’s in emotional turmoil. The novel begins the night before her wedding, and she is torn between her love for the “ne’er-do-well” Ronald Drew and her respectable fiancée Jevan Locke. After meeting with Ronald for a final goodbye, Dorcas believed it would be the last she would hear of him, but the following morning’s papers are smeared with news of murder…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe UK edition was published the year after the US edition which appeared in 1938, published by Doubleday. This copy has an especially bright and beautiful dust-jacket, its design emblematic of the golden age of crime fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHubin, p.128\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124565\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56881667965305,"sku":"2124565","price":975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124565.jpg?v=1774025680","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/eberhart-m-g-hasty-wedding","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}