The Six Iron Spiders
Author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909-1976)
Year: 1942
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Inc
Place: New York
Description:
288 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with brown lettering to spine and covers in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
While on leave from the Porter factory, Asey Mayo discovers a murder in the buttery of his Cape Cod home. Mayo's investigation amid the deprivations of the war years―rationing, suspicion, preparedness―is an entertaining encounter with history.
Condition:
Some rubbing to front heal hinge and light foxing to spine. Jacket with edge wear, small closed tears and chips, lightly soiled else very good in like jacket.