MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD

First UK edition, first printing. Original red cloth with titles to the spine in black, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm. The contents, with a small, light mark to the closed text-block fore-edge, very faint offsetting to the endpapers and a short closed tear to the margin of page 187, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a tiny chip to the foot of the rear spine fold. Not price-clipped (10s 6d on the front flap).

A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. First published in the US by the Viking Press in 1956. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).