Watchful At Night
Author: Julius Fast (1919-2008)
Year: 1945
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc
Place: New York and Toronto
Description:
185 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with inverse red lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition.
Julius Fast was the first recipient of the Edgar Award given by the Mystery Writers of America for the best first novel of 1945.
His first novel, Watchful at Night, written in 1945 while he was still serving in the Army, was given the first award presented at the inaugural Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1946 for Best First Novel by an American Author in 1945. A young soldier is accidentally killed during target practice on the rifle range of a large Army camp. Another soldier who had shared service with the dead man in Africa decides to find out why he was accidentally killed. He learns through his investigation about subversive activities and terror that the young soldier must have faced before he died.
Condition:
Faint rubbing to boards with a touch of toning to pages. Jacket edge wear with chips and closed tears, price clipped, spine toned, rubbed and chipped at ends, lightly soiled else better than very good in a very good jacket.
