Murder in the Bookshop

Philip Balfour is a man who has everything. Having made a fortune in the real estate business he is free to indulge his passion for book-collecting, while all his needs are met by his beautiful young wife Allie and his faithful secretary Keith Ramsey.

Yet it is Balfour's bibliomania that finally proves his undoing. Hearing that a local bookseller has a copy of a rare work by Lewis Carroll, he and Ramsey break into the shop late at night in order to secure the prize volume. Whilst engaged in this clandestine expedition, however, Ramsey is knocked out - and recovers only to find that his master has been fatally stabbed...

Originally published in 1936, this is a vintage murder mystery from a popular and prolific American crime writer.