MURDER FOR HANNAH

First UK edition (published the same year in the US as A Homicide for Hannah), first printing. Review copy with the publisher's review slip loosely laid in. Original peach cloth with yellow titles to the spine. In the dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth with a stain that runs the length of the spine, fading to the spine, and a little softening at the board edges. The contents, with stains to the top and bottom of the textblock edges and toning to the textblock edges and margins, are otherwise clean. Complete with the original lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which has a large stain along the spine and rear panel corresponding to the stain on the binding, and a few small nicks to the extremities. Not price clipped (8/6 net to the front flap). Scarce in the dustwrapper.

Babcock started his career writing pulp shorts and thrillers before joining Universal Pictures in 1943 as a screenwriter, where he worked on horror films such as The Mummy's Curse and House of Dracula.