Castle Skull

Condition: Good

First edition inscription on copyright page. Remnants of original blue onion skin seal on page 233 and rear pasteboard. Several inscriptions on first page. Wear to spine and boards, and significant tanning and spotting of pages, but all intact.

"A flaming figure hurls itself from the turrets of Castle Skull above the Rhine, and a dead man's face appears at the window. When murder follows, Henri Bencolin — head of the Parisian detective service — is called to investigate the grim castle and its mysterious occupants. The second novel by John Dickson Carr, written while he was still a student at Haverford College, already shows the dazzling invention that would make him the undisputed master of the impossible crime."

Harper & Brothers hardback, first edition, 1931. First edition inscription on the copyright page. Remnants of the original blue onion skin seal on page 233 and the rear pasteboard. Several inscriptions on the first page. Wear to spine and boards, and significant tanning and spotting of pages throughout — but all pages intact.