TOO MANY COOKS

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. With a Crime Club postcard loosely laid in. Recipes on blue paper at the rear. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine lightly faded, the extremities a little rubbed, the upper board with a couple of faint marks. There is light offsetting to the endpapers, spotting to the prelims and closed text-block edge and occasional foxing the the margins, the contents are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps.

The fifth Nero Wolfe mystery novel and the first to be published by The Crime Club. First published earlier in the same year in the US by Farrar and Rineheart. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).