The Reluctant Medium L.P. Davies Mystery

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Published for the Crime Club, 1967. First American edition, first printing. "First edition in the United States of America"" statement to the copyright page, 1967 date printed to the title page, $3.95 to the jacket's flap. Originally published in England in 1966 under the title TELL IT TO THE DEAD. A note from a dead man claiming that he came back to seek retribution causes alarm--and serious concern after a murder. The clues and truth needed to be unearthed from a reluctant medium. L.P. Davies, a highly acclaimed, edgy multi-genre author, had books adapted to film and television including for the movies 'Project X' and 'The Groundstar Conspiracy'. Fine and very tight in green linen with black titles and Crime Club gun-pointing insignia man to the spine, yellow headband and tail-band, deckle page fore-edges; in a very good plus dust jacket with a crease-line to the lower edge of the rear panel, nicks to the lower spine edge, tiny tears to the upper spine edge, a few minor vertical soft wrinkle lines to the upper front panel, and some age-toning to the spine panel; original printed $3.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. The jacket will be placed in a quality Brodart brand, clear, removable protective sleeve, after photographing for this entry.