Title - Voice Out of Darkness

Author – Ursula Curtiss / Pages - 192

Publishing – The book was copyrighted by the author in 1948 and first published in hardcover in 1948 by Dodd, Mead. The first paperback edition was by Pocket Books in 1950 as Pocket Book No. 659. This is one of the First Printings.

As stated on the front end page – “Ursula Curtiss makes her entrance into the Pocket Book list with the first-rate mystery thriller, Voice Out of Darkness. This novel won the $1,000 Red Badge Prize Mystery contest. With the award went some of the finest reviews ever accorded a first mystery”.

From the back cover – “Monica was dead. She had been dead for thirteen years, ever since she had crashed through the ice on the lonely little pond. Now her foster-sister, Katherine Meredith, was receiving anonymous letters which read, “You Pusher Her!” To quiet the voice that whispered of a child’s brutal murder, Katy returned to the Connecticut town where it happened. But death was there again. It lingered in the shadows of a steep, dark staircase, rode on the howl of a New England blizzard, and, ugliest of all, death walked in the form of a friend”!

Condition - The book is clean, complete and tightly bound. The covers have mild edge wear and light scuffing. The spine edge has edge wear and is chipped at the very extremes. There are no markings in the book. Pages are moderately age toned. There are no missing, loose, creased or marked pages. The book is in very good condition.