THE DEAD DON'T CARE. Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-261 [262-264: blank], publisher's black cloth stamped in red, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition, first printing. Hard-boiled detective novel featuring private investigator Bill Crane. A condensed version of this story appeared serially in COLLIER'S MAGAZINE under the title "A Queen's Ransom." "Jonathan Latimer's five novels featuring private detective Bill Crane are among the most inventive and entertaining in the genre ... Oddball characters, furious pace, and snappy dialogue are hallmarks of the style; Latimer mixes in a strong element of black comedy as well" (Art Scott). See Pronzini and Muller, eds., 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 464. Slight spine lean, some darkening to endpapers near gutter margins from the binding glue, a nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket priced $2.00 on the front flap with wear and shallow fraying at spine ends and corner tips. (#177941).
Price: $2,000.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.