EIGHT FACES AT THREE (A Bonded Mystery). Craig Rice, Simon & Schuster, U.S.A., 1939.
 
Fiction Novel - Mystery / Detective
 
Pioneering woman crime writer Craig Rice introduces her series sleuth, gin-soaked Chicago lawyer John J. Malone.
 
The first novel in Rice’s John J. Malone series, Eight Faces at Three introduces the hard-drinking Chicago-based attorney that made the author a household name. Comic, witty, and lush, the Malone books are a throwback to a time when alcoholism was commonplace and murder (or, reading about murder) was fun.
 
But not one of them can explain the queerest bent to the crime: At the time of the murder, every clock in the Inglehart mansion stopped dead. And that’s only the first twist in a baffling case of “aunty-cide”—because Alexandria won’t be the last to die.
 
Graphic illustrated softcover book. A small surface mark to the front and a small rear bottom corner chip (to the cover). Secure binding with clean pages and owner name/address at the half-title (first page). About 7-1/2 x 5-1/2 with 128 pages. Scarce.