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The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen. First Edition.

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The Egyptian Cross Mystery, Ellery Queen

First edition, first printing of the fifth Ellery Queen novel, and the first to feature Ellery Queen investigating a murder alone, outside New York City, and without the assistance of his father, Inspector Richard Queen of the Homicide Squad. Ellery Queen was the the pseudonym created by writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee in 1929. Together they wrote nearly thirty books featuring the fictional detective Ellery Queen, edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime and founded the famed Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. In the rare original dust jacket.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1932. Publisher's original red cloth, spine lettered in black, front board paneled in blind and lettered and decoratively stamped in black, original dust jacket; illustrated endpapers, pp. x, 334. A good copy in a good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy and square, minor shelfwear to boards with lightly pushed spine tips, a few minor spots of discoloration to boards. Owner's details to half-title with erasures and a small area of partial paper loss, two letters offset to page opposite. Jacket shows general shelfwear, rubbing and some chipping to extremities, a closed tear to front and rear panels. Dampstaining to the verso of the front panel with a bit of visible rippling. Protected in archival mylar.

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