ISBN n/a
Garden City, New York : Crime Club / Doubleday & Co. [1946]
First Edition (stated), presumed First Printing (no other printings stated)
Hardcover, 220 pp.
Very
Good book in a Good+ dust jacket. Clean,
bright, completely unmarked pages,
no stains,
tears, folds, or odors (see
photos). No foxing to outside edges of text block or on
interior pages. Binding is tight, spine is unmarked and uncreased. and
original publisher's grey boards are clean and square. Dust
jacket is not price-clipped ($2.00 price intact), minor loss to jacket top edges (see photos), plus
wear and chipping at extremities. Jacket now protected
in a new, removable archival Brodart cover. NOT ex-library. NOT
remaindered.
True
first edition.
Just say NO to stock
photos! Photos
(including scans of the cover) are of the actual book you will receive. Insist on seeing what you are paying for.
Book Summary: Rufus King, master of the macabre, penned a modern Bluebeard thriller of
such unbearable suspense that Hollywood jumped at the chance to produce
it as a movie. MUSEUM PIECE No. 13 (later renamed to match the movie)
was filmed as SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR, starring Joan Bennett and Michael
Redgrave, and produced by Fritz Lang. It became an instant noir classic,
as tense, shocking, and suspenseful as the original novel.
Lily
Rumney, lovely and in love, could see no evil in her husband. Not even
when she discovered his strange collection of blood-spattered rooms
where murder had been done. But when a forbidden door swung open and
Lily entered a chamber prepared for death -- her death! -- she knew she
must escape. Slowly, warily, frozen by dread, the terrified bride walked
a dim corridor...while close at hand a madman planned his thirteenth
killing!