Arthur J. Rees — The Hand in the Dark

London, Robert Hale and Company, 1937 . Cloth. A very scarce edition of Arthur J. Rees's thrilling crime novel, in the exceptionally bright original pictorial dust wrapper. The very scarce Robert Hale edition of Australian mystery writer Arthur J. Rees's murder-mystery novel, first published in 1920 by John Lane.In the very scarce and exceptionally bright dust wrapper, price unclipped, and illustrated to show the titular 'hand in the dark&apos. This is the only dust wrapper we can think of showing a corpse as the murderer. Rees's proficiency as a writer of crime-mystery stories is attested by Dorothy Sayers in her introduction to the 1928 work 'Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, in unclipped dust wrapper. Shelf wear to back strip head, with light fading to back strip head and tail, and small mark to fore edge of front board. Spotting to fore edge of text block, not affecting pages. Significant chipping to back strip head and tail, resulting in some losses. Closed tears to head of front and rear joints of dust wrapper. Price label to back strip. Exceptionally bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.